How to Make Mission Style Lamps and Shades

By Popular Mechanics Co.

Mission-style architecture and furniture, popular in this country shortly after the turn of the century, was an offshoot of the 19th-century English Arts and Crafts Movement. Deploring machine-age artificiality, Mission furniture sought to blend beauty, simplicity, and utility in an organic unity. Today, Mission-style furniture is enjoying a renascence among craftspeople who admire its unpretentious charms.
Among the most appealing areas of Mission craftsmanship are lamps and shades. Constructed of wood, copper, brass, and a variety of art glass, they offer delightful period ambiance for home or apartment, and a satisfying project for do-it-yourselfers. This book, an unabridged republication of a popular 1911 manual, offers eighteen complete designs for authentic Mission-style lamps and shades. Written by an expert in clear, straightforward language, this concise handbook shows you how to make droplights, reading lamps, chandeliers, desk lights, dome lamps, and other attractive lighting fixtures.
No elaborate equipment is required. Most of the tools needed will be found in the average home workshop or are easily obtainable. Similarly, the materials required are inexpensive and readily available. Easy-to-follow instructions, with complete measurements, are complemented by more than 75 working drawings, diagrams, and illustrations that show you exactly how to proceed.
How to Make Mission Style Lamps and Shades allows even beginners to craft authentic Mission-style lighting fixtures with surprisingly little time and effort, and a minimal outlay for materials and equipment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Feb 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9780486156156

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Copyright © 1982 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

This Dover edition, first published in 1982, is an unabridged republication of the work written by John D. Adams and first published in 1911 by the Popular Mechanics Company, Chicago, under the title Lamps and Shades in Metal and Art Glass: Eighteen Complete Designs and Shades in Drawings and Full Directions for Their Making. The Note on the Dover Edition, which incorporates the preface of the original edition, has been added to the Dover edition. Except for minor changes in typography for the sake of clarity, the text and illustrations of the original edition are unaltered in every respect.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Adams, John Duncan, 1879—

How to make mission style lamps and shades.

Reprint. Originally published: Lamps and shades in metal and art glass. Chicago: Popular Mechanics Co., 1911. (Popular mechanics handbooks)

1. Lamps. 2. Lampshades. 3. Furniture, Mission.

I. Title. II. Series.

TT897.2.A3 1982

749’.63

81-17308

AACR2

9780486156156

Table of Contents

DOVER CRAFT BOOKS

Title Page

Copyright Page

A NOTE ON THE DOVER EDITION

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE—BUILT-UP SHADES

CHAPTER I - DROPLIGHTS

CHAPTER II - READING LAMP NUMBER ONE

CHAPTER III - READING LAMP NUMBER TWO

CHAPTER IV - SQUARE DINING-ROOM DOME

CHAPTER V - MISSION CHANDELIER

PART TWO—SOLDERED SHADES

CHAPTER I - DESK LIGHT

CHAPTER II - DROPLIGHT NUMBER THREE

CHAPTER III - CHANDELIER

CHAPTER IV - HEXAGONAL LIBRARY LAMP

CHAPTER V - HEXAGONAL DOME FOR LIBRARY LAMP

PART THREE—ETCHED SHADES

CHAPTER I - LAMP NUMBER ONE

CHAPTER II - LAMP NUMBER TWO

CHAPTER III - LAMP NUMBER THREE

CHAPTER IV - LAMP NUMBER FOUR

PART FOUR—SAWN SHADES

CHAPTER I - CONVENTIONAL PATTERNS

CHAPTER II - THE BUTTERFLY DESIGN

CHAPTER III - THE PYRAMID DESIGN

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A NOTE ON THE DOVER EDITION

This volume, written by an expert in the field, presents in clear, straightforward language all the requisite information for making the projects illustrated herein. None of the materials required are extravagantly priced or otherwise difficult to obtain. Thus this Dover republication makes available—in a high-quality paperback edition and at a very low price—the fundamental instructions for making lamps and shades in the distinctive Mission style.

How to Make Mission Style Lamps and Shades was originally published in 1911 by the Popular Mechanics Company (see copyright page for details) as a part of a series of crafts books. The reader will note occasional references to other books in the series, none currently available, with the exception of Mission Furniture: How to Make It (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), which combines three Popular Mechanics volumes into one. Dover Publications trusts that readers will keep in mind the date of the original