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Blue Spot Monpe Gathered Empire Shades

£13000 £14900

Size Guide

A Tube shade is roughly the same height as Diameter, and a Shallow Drum shade is about half as high as the diameter.

Please see the full size guide here

Returns and Refunds

Items that are made for you cannot be returned. Please email us (info@sansho.com) with any queries before ordering!

Full Refund & Return policy here

US Finial/Harp fittings

If you would like a finial fitting for a harp, please let us know, they generally cost only £5-£8.

Shades up to and including 12"diameter have a final fitting, 14" diameter shades and up will come with a spider for use with a harp.

We do not supply harps and our shades will not come with the harp.

Monpe were the traditional work trousers worn by workers in the paddy fields. Now you mostly see this fabric cut up and made into zabuton cushions, but we found a supply of new vintage material in the Kittaka outhouses.

  • 100% Kasuri dyed cotton, from the Kittaka workshop in the famous town of Kurume, Kyūshū
  • The measurements are: Bottom Diameter, Top Diameter, Length of Side (not height).
  • Pattern placement can vary across shade sizes, if you need to know more, please do ask us.
  • Shade made in the UK, the lamp base is not included, this is for the shade only
  • Compatible with US E26 lampsockets
  • If you need shades with a finial fitting to fit a harp, please get in touch. These can be made to order for a small extra cost
  • If the shade you want is out of stock, then it will be made for you. Shades that are made for you cannot be returned (please see our T&Cs). If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch before ordering.

Meet the Maker:

Kittaka Orimono

Hiroshima prefecture covers the old feudal domain of Bingo, which used to specialise in very colourful kasuri weaving and dying. That industry has pretty much disappeared and the only survivor is the Kittaka weaving company who produce a heavier cotton kasuri.

The also used to weave with persimmon dyed cotton, with a lovely warm rusty colour, but that too has know sadly died out as the supplier of traditional persimmon dye has shut up shop.

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