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.

There is no power source, battery type, cable length or switch specification anywhere. If it has to hang away from a socket, treat the power arrangement as unknown until it arrives.

No, despite our 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.

No. None appear in any of the twelve description photographs or the three option images published for this piece. The soft texture in the photos is cotton fringe below the macrame panel and the netted ring itself, not feathers.

Cotton cord for the netted ring, the macrame panel and the fringe, plus a small metal-mesh crescent-moon charm on a chain and small round pale beads strung through the netting.

It depends which option you pick, and this is the one figure that changes between them: the White moon is 94 cm / 37 in, the Black moon is 90 cm / 35.4 in, and the Star is 102 cm / 40.2 in. All three share a 20 cm / 7.87 in ring width.

No. White is 94 cm / 37 in, Black is 90 cm / 35.4 in, and the Star is 102 cm / 40.2 in - a 12 cm / 4.7 in spread across three options sold at the same price. Only the 20 cm ring width is identical across all three.

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 with a dry, soft brush or a hairdryer on cold at low speed. Do not wash it - the cord and beads are not described as washable anywhere in this page, and wetting knotted cord risks pulling the macrame panel out of shape.

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 strung 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. Cotton cord in damp air is a poor combination over time, and nothing supports outdoor or bathroom use.

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.

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.

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.

No. There are no feathers on this product in any of our photographs, so there is nothing to shed. What sheds a little with handling, like any cut cotton fringe, is loose cord fiber at the cut ends - not feather down.

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.

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 recommended. It carries loose cords, small strung beads, and on three options a light string. Above a cot, that is reason enough to hang it out of reach instead.

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.

No. On the two lit options, a 3-meter warm white light string ships loose in the box and needs to be threaded by hand through the netting and fringe after unboxing - it does not arrive already fitted.

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 loose cords 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.

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 piece 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.