Mechanical expanding cardboard lamp - This way up!

Step 20 Update July 2010 - Shade

Recently completed a new shade, in the style and technique I now know is called "chochin".  Tissue paper lanterns with a flexible cane frame.  This actually worked much better than I expected and the results are really great.  I will write a new instructable for this technique as soon as I get better at it.

The pictures show my first attempt.  It is only rested on the top of the lamp and isn't fastened at the base, so it doesn't really work for upping-and-downing, but it does the job, and looks pretty impressive (as long as you don't look too closely - it's a first draft remember).