Macrame Dream Catcher Wall Hanging, Moon or Star, Lights Optional

Three shapes crossed with lights or no lights. The shapes are a cream moon, a black moon and a cream star; each is available lit or unlit.

The supplier does not say. There is no power source, battery type, cable length or switch specification anywhere in the source listing. If it has to hang away from a socket, treat the power arrangement as unknown until it arrives.

No, despite the supplier's title. It is a fine decorative fairy light string threaded through a fiber hanging. It will not light a room and it is not a light fitting.

Yes. Three of the six options are without lights and are the same piece otherwise.

Yes. The soft white feathers in every photograph are real feathers rather than fabric. That means they cannot be washed, and it is worth knowing if anyone in the house has a feather allergy.

Cotton cord for the net and the knotted panel, round wooden beads, and a wire or cord ring. The star version uses a rigid star frame instead of the ring.

Not published. In the dorm photograph it runs from above a bedside lamp to below mattress height, which makes it one of the longest and narrowest pieces in this collection. Measure your wall.

The moon versions have a netted ring with a knotted crescent hanging inside it. The star version replaces the ring with a rigid star frame. The cord curtain below is the same on both.

Charcoal cord throughout with a cream netted ring, so the contrast is reversed. Lit, the warm bulbs read much more strongly against the dark cord than against the cream.

From a single loop at the top, so one fixing. It is light, which is why it suits dorm and rental walls where fixings are limited.

Dust it very gently. Do not wash it and do not vacuum the feathers, which will pull them out. A hairdryer on cold at low speed lifts dust off feathers without damaging them.

Beside a bed rather than above it, in a dorm, a child's room or a reading nook. It is long and narrow, so it wants a strip of wall next to furniture.

It is photographed in one. It carries loose cords, small wooden beads and, on three options, a light string, so hang it well out of reach and treat the cord the way you would a blind cord.

No. Real feathers and cotton cord in damp air is a bad combination, and nothing in the source supports outdoor use.

The supplier gives Origin as Mainland China and no brand name.

Depends whether you want a lit object or an object that happens to be lit. This is the second kind: a fiber dream catcher with a fine warm white string threaded through it, not a light fitting.

One object at about two thirds the headboard width. This piece is long and narrow, so it belongs on the wall beside a bed rather than centered above it.

Something wide rather than long. This one is the opposite shape, which is why every room photograph hangs it beside furniture instead.

The literal feathered hoop has dated; the long macrame version has held on, partly because it reads as texture rather than as a motif. Which one this is depends on the option: the star frame is the least literal.

Something that makes a room feel finished at night rather than during the day. A lit hanging does that, and a first flat usually has one harsh ceiling light and nothing else.

Lower the light and put it at several heights. One warm string at wall height changes a room more than a brighter lamp does, because the problem is usually a single overhead source.

A fine string threaded through something on the wall. It needs no table, no shade and no second socket if the string runs on batteries, though this supplier does not say what powers it.

This one, on three of its six options. The lights are a fine warm white string woven through the cords rather than a fitting, so it glows rather than illuminating a room.

Modern LED strings run cool and most are rated for continuous use, but this supplier publishes no rating, no power source and no certification at all. Treat it as unrated and switch it off when you sleep.

Something vertical. This piece is one of the longest and narrowest in the collection, which is exactly that shape, and the dorm photograph hangs it there.

Something soft with a small light in it. It photographs well, it suits almost any room, and unlike a candle it can be left on.

Warm light and one soft object. Dorms are lit badly and finished in hard surfaces, so a lit fiber piece fixes both problems with one fixing.

Real feathers shed a little, especially in the first week and when they are disturbed. These are real feathers, so expect a few on the floor early on and almost none after that.

It depends on whether it is studio work or an import. This is an import with no named maker. What a listing should earn its price with is honest detail, which on a lit product means the power source.

Two long narrow pieces flanking the table rather than one behind it, so the couple is framed rather than backed. Lit versions read well in the evening part of a reception.

Only with a string rated for it, and with no bulb pressed against the fiber. On this product the string is fitted by the supplier, but with no specification published there is nothing to verify.

One large piece or a small group at different heights, plus warm light. The lighting is the part people skip, and it is what separates a boho room from a room with boho objects in it.

Not this one. It carries loose cords, wooden beads, feathers and on three options a light string. Above a cot that is four separate reasons not to.

Textiles, bought by area. This piece is long rather than wide, so it is not the answer for a big wall; it is the answer for the narrow strip beside one.

Some do and most do not. Three of the six options here include the string; the other three are the same piece unlit. Check which option you are choosing.

Cream reads as texture, black reads as a graphic object. On a lit piece the black version is the more striking of the two, because the warm bulbs have something dark to read against.

The star option here is a rigid star frame rather than a hoop, with the same cord curtain below it. It is the least literal of the three shapes and the one that suits an older child.

The lit versions usually are, because the appeal is the light rather than the motif. The star option avoids the feathered-hoop look that a teenager may find dated.

Neutral fiber at two heights with dried stems. Bear in mind anything with feathers and small beads is worth keeping away from the part of the room where babies will be.

Comb it down with your fingers on arrival and hang it. Long loose cords tangle in transit and settle under their own weight within a day or two.

Above the reach line, yes. Within reach, beads on cord are a choking and strangulation question and feathers are an allergy one. Height is the answer to both.

Anything specified as warm white, which is roughly 2700K. The string on this piece reads warm in every photograph, though no color temperature is published.

Yes, over the top edge with a door hanger. Bear in mind a long piece will swing every time the door moves, which is fine for a wall hanging and less good for a lit one with a cord.

Something repeated down both sides rather than one statement. Long narrow hangings suit an aisle because they read at standing height without narrowing the walkway.

Change the light first. A warm string or lamp does more than any object, because institutional lighting is the single thing that makes a dorm read as institutional.

Something that hangs on one small fixing and gives warm light. Both matter: dorms restrict fixings and the overhead light is always unflattering.

Hang it and wait. Two days handles almost everything. Steaming relaxes the knots and costs the piece its shape, which is a worse trade than a few days of patience.

This is one of them: it is among the longest and narrowest pieces in the collection. In the dorm photograph it runs from above the bedside table to below mattress height.

Heavy knotted panels have cooled. Long narrow pieces and anything with a light in it have not, because they are doing something other than being macrame.

Roll it rather than folding it, and on a lit piece coil the string loosely alongside rather than around the cords. A fold puts a crease across the knotwork that takes weeks to hang out.

Not necessarily, and that is the question this listing cannot answer. No power source, battery type, cable length or switch is published anywhere in the source, so treat it as unknown until it arrives.