Femenine Paper Lantern

In this Instructable I'm going to show you how to make a paper lantern look better and bigger. Maybe you have a paper lantern as a temporal lamp, well, now you'll be able to turn it into a statement piece.

I've always liked fresh flowers in my house, and this lamp is inspired in white carnations. It looks as if it was covered with those pretty flowers.

White sheer fabric or thick ribbon

A paper lamp

Glue gun

White thread

Needle

Begin by cutting long rectangles of fabric (8 to 10 cm width). I chose this fabric because it doesn't fray. That's also an advantage of using ribbon. If yours do fray, you can seal the edges by slightly burning them with a lit candle.

Make a seam with long stitches in the middle of the rectangle, then gather the fabric so you have a ruffle.
Repeat until you have enough ruffles to cover the lamp. Depending on the size of

your lamp you might need more fabric.

Keep in mind the ruffles have to be a little bit apart one another, or the light will be very weak.

Once you have the ruffles ready, heat your glue gun and glue them to the paper lantern.

Start at the bottom and work your way up in a spiral, put glue in the lantern and glue the part of the ruffle with the seam.

Good job, now just hang it and enjoy!
When using a paper lantern, it's always recommended to avoid incandescent bulbs and use led bulbs instead. Because LED bulbs produce no heat, there’s no chance of the lanterns catching fire.