Fire Resistant Paper For Lamp Shades

Colored paper lampshades cast a soft tinted glow and patterns add visual interest.

Fire resistant paper for lamp shades.

Perfect for making doors windows or lamp shades. Fire retardant paper look for fire retardant paper for your lamp if possible. It helps the lampshade keep its form over many years. Opaque with fiber warlon sheet extra strength is an excellent interior material made with thicker pvc resin laminated on both sides of japanese rice paper.

If you wish to use a paper lamp or lantern follow all safety precautions. If building a lampshade from materials such as rice paper that may burn under high heat or if near a flame choose only low wattage bulbs that emit only a small amount of light. Fires do burn at different heat levels based on the accelerant or cause thus testing indicates the most common heat levels. Heavy scrapbooking paper is perfect for making custom paper shades.

Adhesive styrene is perfectly suited to making lampshades because it s light but sturdy and durable. A lampshade made of these materials treated with fire retardant spray will be protected against most fires. Unlike paper or card it s also flame resistant so can make for a safer shade especially if using higher wattage bulbs. It will minimize the chances of a paper lamp catching on fire.