How To: Ressurect a Mid Century Fiberglass Lamp Shade

I was gone all weekend on a trip, so I decided to take today off to catch up on my lost weekend, and to do some work as well. I found this old lamp shade for maybe $2 bucks at a yard sale here in Minot earlier this spring during the spring city-wide yard sale weekend. I saw it sitting there, my wife asked about it, and I don't recall the exact figure - but it was something between 50 cents and 2 bucks. We scarfed it up, and it immediately went into a box in the garage as a future project when we got home that afternoon (I have quite a few pending projects). As found, it was kind of a mess (as you can see from the first photo to the right). The leather lacing holding the fiberglass cloth on rings was dry, ripped, and torn away in places. The fiberglass cloth itself was torn and punctured, *really* grungy, and the lowermost metal hoop was dangling open, broken. Its condition was not good, but I thought I'd pretty easily be able to salvage it - I've never repaired one of these before, but how hard could it be? So this afternoon, I drove off to the local craft supply place and picked up a 25 yard roll of leather lacing from the bead department, and I was ready to give it a go.