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WHAT YOU WILL NEED
• Lightweight cardboard
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Round-based wok
(determines size of the light)
• Hot glue gun
• Electrical cord
• Lampholder
• Lampholder ‘gallery’
(from electrical wholesaler)
• Cable gland fitting
(from electrical wholesaler,
holds gallery in place)
• Low-heat low-wattage eco
lightbulb
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If you’ve always wanted a David Trubridge light, here’s one David designed for anyone to make
Photography Kelsi Duin
David Trubridge has designed this easy DIY hanging lightshade that can be made from cardboard or lightweight recycled materials.
When you’ve made yours, David would love readers to post photographs of their completed lights, hanging in their homes, on his website, www.davidtrubridge.com.
• First make a leaf template out of cardboard and use it to draw leaf shapes on cardboard with a pencil. Cut out.
• Using your wok as a curved base, lay the leaves touching at the tips in a random pattern. Glue tips together to create a curved surface. Keep glue off the wok. Rotate the lightshade within the wok as you build it, until it’s spherical, leaving a gap at the top to fit the lampholder and bulb.
• To attach, feed cord through half of the gland, then the gallery, then the other half of the gland, and lower through a hole in the lightshade, so the shade is supported by the gallery and the lamp hangs in the centre. Tighten gland to fix gallery. Ask an electrician to attach the lampholder and connect to the power.
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