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Antique Lamps & Silk Lamp Shades
This fascinating fibre reeled from cocoons spun by caterpillars of silk-producing insects, is known to have been cultivated for more than five thousand years. China produces 65% of the world’s silk and is the major producer, the balance being grown in India, Thailand, Brazil, Korea and Japan. A limited amount is still grown in England and Italy.
Silk has the ability to handle well and possessing natural fire-retardant properties, makes it a safe fabric for soft furnishing applications. Clean silk will not be attacked by moths, and is mildew resistant.
It is the preference for high-end lamp shade making and not only looks good, but feels good. Combine all of this with its refined, luxurious look and almost endless colour selection and it’s not hard to see why silk is the obvious, elegant choice!
And did we mention that silk is environmentally friendly, relying as it does on good animal husbandry and hygiene for control of disease in the caterpillar and the Mulberry leaf.
But there’s so much more!
Excessive use of water is not involved in its production.
The bi-products of cultivating the caterpillar Bombyx Mori make excellent fish food and the bi-products of the conversion of the cocoon fibre into fabric have many additional applications, both industrial and cosmetic.
As its production is labour intensive it feeds and educates many families world-wide.
And if this isn’t enough, remember that silk, while delicate & light, carries a 200 pound / 90kg soldier on a parachute drop to safety!
So the next time your son or daughter runs in with a shoebox full of mulberry leaves and silkworms, you may marvel at what a little insect can do!
The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co have an in-house, custom made, silk shade service, shipping their stunning lamp shades worldwide to leading interior designers and private clients.
Lamp shades can be seen at -:
http://www.antiquelampshop.com/lampshade.php
to view a wide range of shapes, sizes, lamp shade styles and treatments.
Their web site is loaded with informative/educational articles on a wide range of lighting subjects, with plenty to satisfy anyone with a keen appreciation of history and fine antiques.
All lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.
For more information you are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com
© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2009
About the Author
Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery,with his commercial experience spaning a period of 40 years,including as a valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.