Blanche P. Field, founded in 1905, provides fine custom lamp shades for distinctive houses, hotels and resorts in Boston. The company offers quality, hand-crafted custom lamp shades. It restores antique chandeliers and lamps, convert vases, figurines and unusual objects into lamps. Its showrooms in Boston and New York sell quality English, French and American chandeliers, lamps, wall sconces and lighting fixtures. It offers shades in various sizes and shapes including silk and linen shades, pleated, shirred, stretched, pull-away or in combinations, with ruffles, smocking, rouching, herringbone or other trim styles. It has a huge inventory of cords, ribbons, picots and gros-grains to trim shade including antique and unusual metallic and embroidered trims. Its paper shades with a proprietary finish resembling parchment are available in many colors and styles including roll-pleats, scored line and regular pleats.