Making Thai Lanterns and Applying Decorations in the Interior

With the onset of the holiday, I want to decorate my home in a special way. For example, the so-called Thai lanterns can be an extraordinary solution. However, alas, you cannot buy them in a regular store. In this situation, the man in the street will be helped by the material of this article, which tells how to make an unusual garland of cotton balls with your own hands, as well as where and how to hang them better so that they look not only beautiful, but also appropriate.

Thai lanterns are nothing more than a luminous garland with thread balls. This decorative element got its name thanks to the provincial towns of Thailand, where the production of these ornaments is commonplace. In fact, the balls, which are the main decor of the future garland, are strong balls of thread held together with special glue.

Their average size is 6.5 cm, they are slightly fluffy in texture. Due to the light coming from the garland light bulb, they gently diffuse the luminous flux. Such a decoration is mesmerizing, it can have a beneficial effect on a person's mood. At the same time, due to LED light sources, the garland with balls is harmless, because LEDs do not heat up during operation.

Such decor can decorate a room not only on New Year's holidays. You can use it for various family celebrations. They are able to visually change the perception of space, make the room mysterious and elegant. For their production, expensive components are not needed: cotton threads, glue, as well as balls of the right size are enough.

The package does not include a garland: it is bought separately, selecting the desired number of LED sources and, accordingly, the length. All cotton lanterns must be of the same size and must have no other garland. It should shine in a single light color. No need for colored tones - the glow will be multi-colored anyway due to the different shades of the balls themselves.

A garland with Thai balls can be hung in different places of the home. For example, the traditional option would be a Christmas tree, which will add a special spirit of magic to the room. If such a technique seems too commonplace, you can think of other locations for the garland.

You can decorate curtains, and sometimes cornice with this decor. It looks beautiful, and the auxiliary lighting, although to a small extent, makes up for the lack of lighting in the room in the evening. Decorating wall shelves and shelves with balls will look beautiful. In this case, the garland can not only be hung on the shelves themselves, but also laid on them, which will look even more interesting.

Someone throws a similar decor on stools, sofas and even armchairs. Others lay them on the floor, surrounding, for example, a home mini-greenhouse. Oddly enough, even a careless way of using it allows you to bring an atmosphere of home comfort into the room. Sometimes a festive dining table, wardrobes, dressing tables are decorated with a garland with balls.

Craftswomen manage to modify chandeliers and wall lamps with the help of Thai balls, they decorate large mirrors, hanging pots, cribs. In this case, the location in the baby bed may be different.The balls attract the attention of children, because they are unusual and made of their threads of different colors. Such decor looks beautiful on the crowns of children's tents and bed canopies, as well as on the steps of stairs.

Decorating with a Thai garland of photo zones is worthy of a separate topic. In this case, the decor can be not only strung on a garland, but also scattered over the photo zone.

You will learn how to beautifully hang a garland of Thai lanterns by watching the following video.

Making Thai lanterns with your own hands is easy: let's turn to the step-by-step instructions.

• Small balloons are inflated up to 6.5 cm using a special air pump.
• The inflated balloons are twisted so that air does not escape from them.
• Then they are wrapped with cotton threads, impregnated with a special glue based on natural resin.
• After the ball is wrapped tightly enough, the threads are cut. This is done with all balls.

• The workpieces are placed in a drying (special oven) for several minutes.
• Having taken out the blanks from the oven, take out the balloons from them, carefully picking them up with a needle or a thin hook and pre-punctured.
• After that, a fairly dense and durable ball will remain cut to hang on a garland with LED bulbs.

Craftswomen often modify technology. For example, they can use leftover yarn instead of regular thread. Instead of special glue, they use PVA stationery, which can be purchased at school supply stores. In order to wind not dry, but glue-soaked threads on a balloon, they simply pierce a plastic bottle with glue through with a gypsy needle. After that, the needle is removed, and the thread is pulled, and it is fed to the ball in a lubricated form with glue.

Thai balls are a kind of "must-have", which is used both for home decoration and office space decoration. You can buy it on different trading platforms. But in most cases, products are folded during transportation to save space, which affects their quality. Having received balls that are far from ideal, the buyer remains extremely dissatisfied.

It is not always possible to straighten products to an ideal state. However, it is possible to more or less get them back in shape. To do this, you need a wooden sushi stick or a regular pencil. It is inserted into the slot for the garland and the ball is straightened from the inside. It takes a minimum of time (about a few seconds).

If a ball purchased on the Internet does not have a slot, it is made independently with the help of scissors. It is more difficult to straighten it with a metal knitting needle, as well as trying to restore its original shape with a gypsy needle.

As a rule, a home-made product is not durable, while home-made Thai balls are denser and more durable. The Chinese garland may be inferior in quality to products of proven brands. In addition, such a product is not always perfectly flat and durable. Often, the balls are folded in half to make the package smaller and cheaper.

When buying cotton balls, you need to carefully consider not only the quantity, but also the color of the flashlights. They can be correlated with elements of interior details, which will create the effect of harmonious infusion into the existing style. Let it be not all, but one of the related shades, but this is what will make the use of a garland in the interior appropriate at any time of the year. You can buy several pieces in reserve: by laying them out on a shelf or, say, a rack, you can create the illusion of the integrity of the design of the room using balls.