Recycle Project: Milk Bottle Lampshade

Taryn McIntosh from Cape Town made this pendant lampshade by recycling plastic milk bottles

October 16, 2014

You will need

To make
1 Spray paint the metal frame white.

2 Cut up milk bottles into leaf shapes and make a hole in each shape using a needle.

3 String the plastic shapes onto nylon thread and add beads for detail, if you prefer.

4 Wrap the nylon thread with the shapes around the frame and knot the thread to the frame.

5 Attach a pendant light fitting.

Text and image: Ideas magazine

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