covered with a thin flexible transparent film of a covering material 26 typically a plastic film to protect the fabric material from collecting dust on store shelves or from being soiled during transportation or display many consumers perhaps from practice in the clothing field will often touch and feel an item for sale and in the case of a fabric covered lampshade the fabric is often soiled by such repeated contact with a consumer 39 s fingers such soiling led to the omnipresent use of the plastic film covering material 26 on the exterior and interior surfaces of the lampshade as shown in fig1 however the use of the covering material prevents the consumer from touching the fabric and there are many consumers who will not complete the purchase unless they can contact the fabric it will be remembered that the lampshade fabric is a decorative item and the texture or u201c hand u201d of the fabric is critical in certain fashion settings and interior design this invention proposes the use of a tag or label 30 hung by a tie 28 from the lamp 10 or the lampshade 12 the tag 30 has a hole 32 through which the tie 28 extends the tie 28 is a long thin piece of rope wire or plastic which is formed into a loop and closed on itself preferably one end of the tie has a passage through.