Desperately In Need Of Cleaning Advice!!!

[maggiemcgill]

Hi Everybody, I am desperately in need of some cleaning advice!
I bought a tall lamp from MFI awhile ago which is made from a canvas like materiel or something similar. There are no cleaning instructions and the lamp is frantic need!!!
Does anybody have a clue, possibly a home dry cleaning tip to remove grubby finger marks and the like?

A brief description if it helps, cream 3 ft (ish) cube with little decoration squares cut into the cream material...once illuminated the black fingerprints look Ghastly!!! HELP!

[Lakitu]

Get a cloth, dunk it in a bit of soapy water and wring it as hard as you can so there's no excess water at all, then start going over the fabric.

[weeal]

http://www.papersafe.demon.co.uk/prac991.htm

this should do it

[tinpotLizzie]

An old fashioned way to clean fabric lampshades safely was to use a piece of fresh bread. It actually works! & you can put the crumbs out for the birds afterwards!

[Bettypat]

You could try a soft pencil eraser.

[maggiemcgill]

Thanks everybody, I tried a damp cloth which seemed to just push the murky bits around...Not tried bread! I'll give it a go...failing that do you know where I can buy of of those dry cleaning pads, without going online?