1st: If you have a normal garland without attached lights, what you can do is to place the lights, this is how: Place the garland in two points parallel to the ground so that it can reach the entire strand easily. Most garlands are 9 feet long.
Second: Take a strand of mini lights 4 “or 6” spaced and 100 lights long. Starting at one end, attach the first mini bulb to the garland by wrapping the garland around the light (the garland should be made of flexible wiring). We mostly use 6 “spacing, just because that’s what we tend to ask for, but 4” spaced mini lights would really make it easier.
3rd: Take the last bulb of the light string and place it at the other end of the garland in the same way. You should now have two points of the lights attached to the garland, one at the beginning and one at the end, and the rest of the lights hanging in the middle. After much trial and error, we have found the best way to ensure that the lights are uniform throughout. Make sure you don’t skip this step.
4th: Count the lights to the middle of the strand, in this case, the number 50 bulb. Now take that bulb and place it in the middle of the string of the garland in the same way that you did with the other two.
5th: Now it should have a “W” shape with the lights because we have 3 points attached to the garland, beginning, middle and end. Repeat this step one more time with the two different sections now so that you have 5 stitches attached to the garland with the lights hanging in the middle. (The point of this is to make sure the lights are evenly distributed throughout the garland.)
6th: Once you have 5 dots attached to the garland, you can do one of two things. One: You can take the remaining lights and just wrap them around the garland, making sure to keep them spaced as evenly as possible. Once you’ve wrapped all the lights, be sure to attach a couple of them to the garland by wrapping the garland around the light to prevent them from falling apart. Two: The professional way, and the way we do it here, of wrapping the garland is to continue wrapping each individual bulb around the garland. What is accomplished by this is to ensure that the bulb is at the tip of the garland rather than in the middle of the garland.
Hope this helped answer any questions you have about Garland lighting! As always, if you want me to cover a topic … JUST ASK! If you would like to see some examples of what a large garland might look like, please visit our website below and go to the “Gallery” tab.
