Abstract: The lamp shade comprises a cover fabricated from a generally rectangular sheet of flexible material to which composite tape units are attached adjacent the upper and lower edges thereof. Each tape unit includes a first pile-type fastener tape having its back side secured to the sheet adjacent the top edge thereof, a fabric tape attached to the first pile-type fastener tape and a second pile-type fastener tape attached to the fabric tape along the edge thereof opposite the edge to which the first pile-type fastener tape is attached so that the fabric tape can be looped or folded about a conventional lamp shade ring and the second pile-tape fastener tape then releasably engaged with the first pile-type fastener tape to maintain the sheet of flexible material in a generally cylindrical configuration.