Not only do we sell everything you need to make handmade lampshades (and we really mean everything!), we also stock an incredible range of 174 individual plain and printed fabrics, expertly developed and selected for their suitability to make beautiful, handmade lampshades. And to celebrate our lampshade fabric ranges, we’re offering 10% off fabrics during March!
Read on to find out more about our sumptuous velvets, soft and stylish cottons, textured linens and, importantly, how to claim your discount!

Benefits of Our Lampshade Making Fabrics
Drawing on our expertise in the lampshade-making industry, we've carefully curated our fabric range to ensure you can:
Create stunning hard and soft lampshades with a variety of patterned and plain fabrics in an array of colours and styles.
Choose from different textures and finishes, from plush velvets to natural fibres like linen.
Achieve clean, crisp rolled edges, at the top and bottom of your lampshade for a professional-quality finish.
Ensure strong adhesion to our Stick It® Self-Adhesive Lampshade PVC range.
Enjoy competitive fabric pricing, alongside sourcing your high-quality lampshade-making materials.

Plain Fabric Ranges
Woven specifically for lampshade making, our Chic Fabric Range offers you the opportunity to work with the lampshade industry’s most popular and fundamental textile. Made from 65% polyester and 35% cotton composite and weighing 110gsm, this fabric has a smooth finish and ensures a crisp professional edge to your handmade lampshade, and with 34 colours to choose from, we guarantee there'll be one to suit your colour scheme.
Chic Fabric Range – 150cm wide, normally £13.62 per metre, now £12.26
Alternatively, our Cordoba Plain Cotton, in 13 vibrant colours, is 100% cotton, with slightly textured look and feel. Heavier than our Chic Fabric at 150 gsm, this offers the equally excellent professional results when making hard or soft lampshades.
Cordoba Plain Cotton – 150cm wide, normally £6.98 per metre, now £6.29
Velvet Fabric Ranges
Our exquisite velvet fabric ranges exude luxury at first glance. Sumptuously soft and visually striking, these opulent fabrics come in both rich solid colours and captivating prints, making them ideal for crafting handmade lampshades in various shapes and sizes.
Choose a plain velvet from our Supreme Velvet Range, featuring five luxurious jewel tones, opt for a Venetian Velvet offering sophisticated elegance in deep, rich shades like Ruby and Slate or our Supreme Printed Velvet, featuring vibrant digitally printed designs, on rich plush, medium weight velvet.
Supreme Velvet Range – 150cm wide, normally £17.99 per metre, now £16.20
Venetian Velvet Range – 150cm wide, normally £15.13 per metre £13.62
Supreme Printed Velvet – 150cm wide, normally £19.99 per metre, now £18.00
For more information on making handmade velvet lampshades, read our Lampshade Style Guide: Velvet Shades, which offers tips on creating a professional lampshade edge using velvet by extending the width of the kisscut and closing a velvet lampshade seam.
The Naturals Collection
Providing outer texture and surface detail when lit, the Naturals Collection is a selection of slubbed, open weave and organic look natural fabrics, in a variety of neutral tones, such as off white, cream, light brown and beige. This collection provides lampshade makers with an unfailing source of neutral textured fabrics for interesting lampshades.
The Naturals Collection – 142cm wide, from £11.41 per metre, now from £10.27
Chatham Plain and Printed Linen
Our Chatham Plain Linen-Look Fabric combines the natural beauty of linen with the practicality of polyester, resulting in a high-quality, easy-care, 200 gsm material. Its regular raised weave will add texture to handmade lampshades, whilst it’s 80% cotton content ensures a crisp rolled edge finish. Available in six colours – a mix of neutrals and muted pastels – this plain fabric is sure to add simple elegance to your lampshade making.
Using high quality digital printing and a variety of colours, to depict flora, fauna, stripes, animals and fruits for the majority on a neutral linen-look background, our Chatham Printed Linen-Look Range offers the same cotton/ polyester ratio and is perfect for lampshade making, cushions, curtains and homewares projects.
Chatham Plain Linen-Look Range - 140cm wide, £9.98 per metre, now £8.99
Chatham Printed Linen-Look Range - 140cm wide, £11.99 per metre, now £10.80

How to claim your discount
Shop any of our fabric ranges between 1st and 31st March, and the 10% discount will automatically be applied to your fabric at the checkout!

Lamination Option
For hard lampshade making, our Lamination Service is available to both individual lampshade makers and the lighting industry and we can laminate any of our fabric ranges to our Stick It® Lampshade PVC, making this ready to use in your project.
Simply select 'Lamination' option in the dropdown menu when buying your fabric and we will laminate this fabric to 300-micron thick White PVC. If you’d prefer a different Stick It® Lampshade PVC proudct, such as our Stick It® Metallics or Stick It® Clear, please contact info@dannells.com and we'll help you personalise your order.
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