Fairy Lights for the UK
Fairy Lights to brighten every occasion....
Different Types of Fairy Lights
Incandescent
Incandescent lamps produce a broad white light and are then coloured by coating the glass with a transparent or translucent paint which effectively acted as a filter. These essentially are what we would term fairy lights. [Find out more.....]

LED
Led lights – LED stands for Light Emitting Diode are becoming hugely popular due to their efficient use of power, clarity of colour, and longevity. There are two types of LED light coloured and white. Coloured leds emit one specific colour determined by the led chip, and do not suffer from colour fading or brittleness, which can be a characteristic of incandescent bulbs. The white leds are similar to coloured ones in the sense of durability and power efficiency, but require a two stage process to effect a white light. In the first stage the colour emitted is ultraviolet, unseen by the human eye. The second stage is where phosphor absorbs the energy from the ultraviolet and fluoresces producing a broad spectrum of colours, but which is perceived by the human eye as white. [Find out more.....]

Fibre Optic
Fibre optic technology has become more popular over recent times mainly in “pre-lit” Christmas Trees. Incandescent lamps or leds are located in the base of the tree and the fibre optics cables transport the light throughout the tree's branches. [Find out more.....]

Bubble Lights
Bubble lights are a type of incandescent novelty light that acquired some popularity during the 1950s. Their main feature is a sealed glass tube with a coloured bubbling liquid inside. While the idea was first demonstrated by Benjamin Franklin, the idea was adapted for use in Christmas Lights. They were invented by Carl Otis in 1935, who then sold the patents to the NOMA Electric Corporation. [Find out more.....]

A bit of history...
History
Fairy lights or Christmas lights are the terms used to describe a string(s) of electric lights with small bulbs that were first used on a tree in the New York City home of Edward Johnson on 22nd December 1882. Johnson was a business associate of inventor Thomas Edison.
The handwired 80 bulb fairy lights consisted of red, white and blue electric incandescent light bulbs the size of a small golf ball. By 1900 businesses had started using strings of lights behind their windows, but they were far too expensive for the average person to use until around 1930 and were only used indoors. In 1904 and then in 1912, the first outdoor lights were used.
By the mid-1950s indoor fairy lights had become common place in households, and were being used for Christmas trees, mantelpieces, windows, doors, rooflines and rafters as well as buildings including skyscrapers.
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