silks over light - fire hazard?

[yukookoo]

just curious. I've seen it done a lot and we have these lights that are on the wall basically a light bulb with glass around it, like thick glass, im sure there is a name for it and we drape silk over it to soften the light. Have been doing this for a long time and never had any problems, dont sleep with lights on or anything like that...

but I was just curious how other waldorf people do this? I've seen it done a lot in waldorf schools but I dont remember exactly how it was done to avoid fire hazard or if silk would even burn

[mommabeehilly]

I drape silks over some of our lamps in the house...I only do it over the ones with the energy star bulbs that don't heat up.

[ourdayourjourney]

i have draped silk over strings of indoor/outdoor lighting or christmas tree lights, which do not heat up.

[tbone_kneegrabber]

if you are using CFL (which you should be anyway) then there is very little risk of heating up to the point of causing a fire. If you are using halogen or an incandescent bulb, they can get rather hot.