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Christmas lights in Verona, Italy. Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree with lights in London, England. Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide.
Wrapping lights around your tree so they create rows of lights might be the status quo; however, many people on TikTok are convinced that a vertical arrangement is the gift that keeps on giving.
The only types of lights used are mini, C7, and C9. Special wiring was to be installed to light the 125-foot-tall (38 m) pine tree with C9 bulbs for the 2007 display. Miniature lights first came in sets of 35 (3.5 volts per bulb), and sometimes smaller sets of 20 (6 volts per bulb).
Christmas tree decorated with lights, stars, and glass balls Glade jul by Viggo Johansen (1891), showing a Danish family's Christmas tree North American family decorating Christmas tree (c. 1970s) A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, associated with the celebration of Christmas. [1]
A "Professional" tree will light up all of the large amber lights simultaneously, and then after a 4 ⁄ 10 second delay, light up the green light. [2] Some classes will use a hybrid tree, known as a .500 Professional tree, where the delay for the green light is .500 seconds instead of the .400 seconds used in a standard Professional tree.
On Christmas Eve 1832, a young Victoria wrote about her delight at having a tree, hung with lights, ornaments, and presents placed round it. [6] In the 1840s, after a picture of Victoria's Christmas tree was shown in a London newspaper decorated with glass ornaments and baubles from her husband Prince Albert 's native Germany, Lauscha began ...
Fiber optic trees come in two major varieties, one resembles a traditional Christmas tree. [17] The other type of fiber optic Christmas tree is one where the entire tree is made of wispy fiber optic cable, a tree composed entirely of light. [17] David Gutshall, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, received a patent for the latter type of fiber optic ...
A Christmas tree inside a home, with the top of the tree containing a decoration symbolizing the Star of Bethlehem. [18]The Christmas tree was first used by German Lutherans in the 16th century, with records indicating that a Christmas tree was placed in the Cathedral of Strassburg in 1539, under the leadership of the Protestant Reformer, Martin Bucer.