Printed in Malaysia, one at a time, after you ask for it.
There is no warehouse. Every shade begins as a spool of filament and a few hours of machine time, started the day after somebody buys it.
The workshop · 4:3
The bench, the printers, hands at work.
Why this exists
Not written yet
Two or three sentences in your own voice: what you thought was wrong with the lampshades you could buy, and what you set out to make instead. This is the paragraph people quote back to you — write it yourself.
A lampshade a machine printed?
Yes. That is the point, not the compromise.
A shade is the one object in a room you look straight at with a light behind it. Printing lets the wall be a single continuous bead of material — 0.42 mm — which is thin enough that the material itself glows. Nothing moulded gets that thin and holds its shape.
What it is made of, exactly.
No adjectives. These are the numbers the workshop works to.
0.42 mm
One bead thick
A single continuous wall, no infill and no solid layers. Built the conventional way — 1.2 mm and two perimeters — the same shade takes 3.36 hours and 109 g and passes almost no light. This way it takes 1.54 hours and 40 g and glows.
Visible
The layer lines stay
You can see and feel where the nozzle laid each pass. They are not sanded out, because they are the honest record of how the thing was made — and because sanding a 0.42 mm wall would go straight through it.
60% / 23%
Colour is not a finish
Bone passes about 60% of the light through that wall; slate about 23%. Off, slate reads as a solid dark object. On, almost all you see is the pattern. They are different products, not different shades of the same one.
LED only
PLA, and the bulb
PLA softens near 60 °C. An incandescent or halogen bulb inside a shade this close will distort it, which is why every complete lamp ships with the LED it was designed around. This is a safety limit, not a preference.
Mid-print · 1:1
A shade on the bed, part-built, layer lines visible.
Six at a time, and they change.
The range is deliberately short. Six shades are on sale, and which six is decided by what sells — four proven places and two that rotate whatever the numbers look like, so a design nobody has seen yet still gets its turn on the shelf.
Write this last, and write it as yourself rather than as a company. What you want someone to know before they buy, and thanks for buying. Sign it with your name underneath.