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Once upon a time, my wife had a beautiful tulip-shaped light shade made from frosted white glass. Sadly it has been lost to time, but it's been a long-standing goal of mine to replace it for her. Ponoko has made that possible, and she liked it so much, I thought I'd see if anyone else would like one too...

This item consists of a tulip-shaped light shade for a hanging light fitting. The 'blades' of the shade are subtly patterned with stars, distributed to suggest the patterning inside a real tulip. I would recommend using this item with a CF bulb only (incandescent bulbs are likely to give off too much heat).

This item is designed to work with a standard Bayonet light fitting (BC22), as used in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Ireland, France and the Middle East. I can supply this design to work with most other 'normal' light fittings (e.g. E26 (MES) in North America or E27 (ES) in Europe), at no extra cost, if you can supply me the outer diameter of your light fitting (e.g. a BC22 bulb has a Ø22mm base that works with a fitting that has an outer diameter of 28mm). Please note that this shade will not fit onto a light fitting that sits flush with the ceiling (it needs at least a short length of cable to hang from).

Once assembled, this item is 260mm [10.2"] high and 250mm [9.8"] in diameter. This item can be cut, at no extra cost, from any of the 3mm [1/8"] -thick acrylic plastics available from Ponoko. The default colour is transparent frosted white. To view the colour options before you buy, see the 'Colour Pre-visualiser' at http://rraadd.com/www/02.01.01

This item comes as a flat-pack kit that can be assembled without any tools in about five minutes. For assembly instructions, see http://rraadd.com/www/02.01.01

After you submit your order, I'll ask you which coloured acrylic you want to use.

A variation on this theme can be seen in the more organic Tulip Flick design: http://www.ponoko.com/showroom/rraadd/for-the-home-lighting-tulip-flick-2193

I can ship this product FREE to anywhere that Ponoko can reach.

Please feel free to contact me before you buy if you have any questions!