Mosaic Lamp

This lamp may be one of the most challenging things that I have yet designed and printed, but it is also one of my favorite designs. This design does take a lot of patience and time to print and assemble, but I know at least for me, the results were worth it. (The lattice frame of the lampshade alone takes about 20 hours to print.) Not counting the original development prototype, I have created five of these lamps so far, and I have printed lattice frames for three more. All were printed in PLA. The design can be customized an almost infinite number of ways; you are only limited by whatever colors of filaments you have available.

The lampshade is a lattice frame that has 7 rows of 24 tiles each. (That's right - there are 168 of them.) The tiles are not glued in place; they snap into grooves that are inside the lattice. In addition to the printed parts, you will need a bottle-lamp kit and three pieces of 16 ga. (1.5 mm) x 125 mm long steel wire. (I have included a picture o