Feature Lighting

25/07/2026

Some designs deserve a second chance and this one is proof that good design never really goes out of style.

Vintage lamp. New lampshade. Fresh perspective.

A customer contacted us because they had inherited a West German lamp base from their parents. It didn’t have a shade, but they had googled to see what the original shade was like from what they remembered as a child - they sent us the image with tree design.

We have made many a plain fat lava shade in neutral linens and bark cloth type fabrics, and many more in bright mid century colours and patterns, but this is quite an understated design.

Since it was very unlikely we could find any fabric with a similar printed design, we put our designer thinking hats on 🤔 and created our own interpretation of the original tree design, staying true to the character of the original lamp while giving it a fresh new look. Possibly hard to see in the photo, but it has some nice detail in the bark of the branches in tones of brown. Printed and then laminated onto a beige pvc to keep an aged antique aesthetic, (we decided it might look a bit silly in white). We think this new lamp shade does justice to the original base and we can’t wait to see a photo of them united together.

At 82cm high this is a tall one for sure, but we now have the ability to apply this design to our smaller models too.

We love helping people breathe new life into beautiful old lamps with handcrafted replacement lampshades, made in our Lancashire workshop.

29/11/2025

Some Big Fat News…

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of some original slip casting moulds for 1960s lamp base designs from a company in Stoke-on-Trent.

This acquisition will enable us to reissue these designs with updated contemporary glazes and finishing techniques, aiming for a release in 2026. Give us a follow or sign up to our newsletter on our website if you want to follow along our development of these lamp bases.

A few of the moulds came with bisque-fired models, so we already know what they look like. But some didn’t, so it’s going to be a bit of a surprise when we finally cast them.

It was by complete chance I found these for sale on Facebook and it is very exciting as we have for many years made new lampshades for customers with old West German Fat Lava Lamps, but I must admit also slightly confusing, as I have the lamp base front left, it is glazed in Fat Lava style, it is identical, I thought they were suppose to be West German and not made in a Middle England Pottery?
Of course they are now going to be Lancashire made.

12/11/2025

Remember our incredible Giveaway where 15 incredible businesses got together to create an epic prize?
Well the winner has been chosen & we are pleased to announce that won ! Congratulations, you have won an amazing selection of prizes. From us that is a Hare Lamp with a choice of lampshade. We will be in touch to discuss this with you.
Thank you to everyone who entered.

22/10/2025

For those who missed it, we were showcasing our new Lancashire Heritage range of lampshades made with fabric woven in Lancashire at Manchester last weekend - the new fluted designs and the hairy selvedge shades were most talked about. Not that we are biased but we loved all of them :)

20/06/2025

Read all about how we got Vivienne our Veloblade cutting machine and how she is now a valued member of the Feature Lighting team

NEWS: The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) Innovation and Productivity grant scheme is still open and Pendle Borough Council is encouraging businesses to apply.

Feature Lighting based in Northlight, Brierfield, which designs and manufactures bespoke lampshades received a grant for £18,000 towards a state-of-the-art cutting machine.

Read our news release for more information - https://www.pendle.gov.uk/news/article/329/from_handmade_to_high_tech_-_pendle_business_forges_a_bright_future_with_new_tech_investment

Feature Lighting

05/06/2025

Wooo hooo we are finalists in the Pendle Business Awards - Make it in Pendle category.

Super happy to chosen as finalist as we put a lot of effort in to make our product here in Pendle Lancashire and source as many materials and components as we can locally too.
Fingers crossed 🤞 Feature Lighting for the 🏆

We are delighted to announce that our 2025 Make it in Pendle Award Finalists are ⭐ Agenda Boxes & Packaging Ltd ⭐ Aquaspira ⭐ Feature Lighting

Huge congratulations and best of luck to you all 🍀

We're looking forward to celebrating with you on Thursday 3 July at our black-tie Awards Ceremony at The Fence Gate 🥂🏆

This award is kindly sponsored by Senior Aerospace Weston

Finalists, do watch your inboxes as an email with full details of how to secure PBA25 tickets will be with you by 5pm today.

20/03/2025

This is our new base cloth fabric woven right here in Lancashire - We love it just as it is, it makes fabulous lampshades : Fresh, simple & illuminates well. This is a white cotton-linen mix with just a slight inherent slub due to the variance in natural materials - But…
We are going to love it even more when it has our new designs printed on it. We are even getting it printed in Lancashire too - Bring on the patterns!