Craftster user Lufah found a box of 35mm film slides at an antique store and put them to fabulous use by making a curtain. They’re attached to cafe curtain clips at the top, so they’re even functional, and can open and close. Each slide is connected to the slides near it with large jump rings. Doesn’t the curtain look awesome with the light shining through it? This isn’t technically a dollar store craft (I don’t think you can get any of this stuff at the dollar store!), but it’s so neat I just had to share. [how to make a kodachrome slide curtain]
Project Estimate:
- 250 slides, on hand (you’ll have to hunt for these, so I don’t have a price estimate. I’m guessing at least $20)
- 1000 large jump rings (Lufah used chain mail rings, which are a good choice because you can get a lot of them for less money), about $20 for 1000
- Dremel, on hand
Total: $40 and up
10 Comments
Victoria S.
Beautiful! It becomes the focal point of the room and looks amazing lit up. Here is the lamp shade I remember seeing on She’s So Crafty.
http://www.hgtv.ca/articles/articledetails.aspx?ContentId=2852&cat=2&by=5
floribunda
way cool! I happen to have about 2 million slides sitting in a closet, so this is something I might actually do…
Jenny
What a cool idea. My only concern would me how well do the slides hold up. Do they fade in the constant sun?
Patty
I really love this idea.
Katie
Hello. I have a lot of film I would really really love to try this. Any way you could explain or show a up close picture of how you connected the frames. I don’t seem
To get how it was done. Thanks.
heather
@katie, the person who made it drilled holes in each slide with a Dremel tool and then attached them with jump rings -those metal rings you can get in the jewelry section of your craft store that you can pry open with pliers and then put back together. It’s basically like a gigantic, hard-core, jewelry project.
Here’s a closer pic from the original post at Craftster:
Katie
Thank you!!
Cheryl
Great idea and beautifully done! I might just do this with some slides I have carried around in a box for years. This inspires me to get them out and have them printed or digitized and then use them to make one of these myself. Thanks for sharing and the method used to create the project.
Cheryl