Hanging Lantern
Hanging Lantern
Let a copper hanging lantern lighten you inspiration
Candle Supply Company Ltd has a beautiful selection of copper hanging lanterns for you to choose from made to an extremely high standard at unbeatable wholesale prices. We believe we can offer your business better value for your money than any other supplier on the market.
Hanging lanterns were the most common form of lighting before the advent of electricity and are still popular today for both their functional and decorative qualities. We choose them over many other sources of light for their warmth and artistic construction. They have a historic influence and a distinctive unique finish.
These copper hanging lanterns can be used both indoors and outdoors. Wonderful for outdoor gatherings, a garden lined with them looks especially magical at dawn or night time, they also are great for keeping annoying insects at bay as they serve to hold insect repelling candles. Being inexpensive to buy makes them more appealing and not only do these lanterns add an abundance of style and charm to any home or business, they also provide efficient lighting that is not over bearing. Indoors, copper hanging lanterns do miracles in gracing your home, bringing out an old world charm. A timeless style and beauty among homeowners, restaurants and city street lights, also great for adding a tasteful touch to weddings making a warm romantic glow surround the event.
If you love the look of lit candle lanterns in your yard, copper hanging lanterns add a real sense of intimacy to any space, looking especially great in porches, garden paths or driveways, around the poolside or just scattered around the garden giving a wide open space a cosy feel. Also beautiful sat on the fireplace table or windowsill. When there's a power cut, or just sat reading a book with a lantern lit can be very relaxing, these lanterns are a very handy to have about the house. They really do have many purposes in our homes and are also a great gift idea. Having a charming Candle Lantern on display shows an eye for attention to detail reflecting your excellent taste. Made from copper they are sure to withstand the elements making them long lasting and one of our best selling items.
We have a wonderful variety of hanging candle lanterns for you to choose from and pride ourselves with the quality of all the stock we hold. Our large range of candles, candle holders incense sticks and holders and all fragrance oils are the best in the UK. Please do ask for any extra pictures you would like us to send you. Feel free to come visit our showroom to see for yourself. If you need assistance with your order our friendly efficient team are happy to help. We offer you free mainland UK delivery on all orders over £300 excluding Scottish highlands, for quotes on delivery prices across Europe please contact us on 01606 301 918 fax 01606 883 940 or please email us at sales@candlesupply.co.uk.
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Candle Supply Company Ltd has a beautiful selection of copper hanging lanterns for you to choose from made to an extremely high standard at unbeatable wholesale prices
Hanging Paper Lanterns in My Apartment?
My college apartment doesn't allow drilling or messing with the ceiling, but I would LOVE to hang some paper lanterns in the living room.
Does anyone know a way to hang paper lanterns (the type that plug into the wall via cord) without doing anything to the ceiling???
Thanks! 
Plain paper lanterns (without the lamp assembly) are light enough to be supported from the ceiling with a straight pin. However, once they have a bulb in them, even a thumbtack isn't strong enough. I'd be more inclined to stretch florists wire from one corner of the room to the other, securing the wire into the point where the two walls & ceiling meet. The lamps can then be hung from the wire.
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Merrimack Outdoor Hanging Lantern $173 Merrimack Outdoor Hanging Lantern |
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Sage Ridge Outdoor Hanging Lantern $217 Sage Ridge Outdoor Hanging Lantern |
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A Hanging Lantern is Framed by an Open Courtyard $39.99 A Hanging Lantern is Framed by an Open Courtyard - Photographic Print |
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Antique Brass Outdoor French Lantern Hanging Fixture $1359 Antique Brass Outdoor French Lantern Hanging Fixture |
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Monaco Outdoor Hanging Lantern $494 Distinctive Monaco six-light die cast aluminum outdoor hanging lantern in Colonial Bronze finish, features arch detail and water seedy glass. |
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Lighthouse Duomount Hanging Lantern $305 Handsome Lighthouse duomount hanging lantern is reminiscent of contemporary mission with a nod to the nautical. Try this versatile fixture indoor or outdoor, great for damp locations. This fixture can also be used as a hanging lantern or flush mount. It is finished in burnished bronze complimented with etched opal glass. Measures 13"h as a hanging light or 12" as flush mount. Please note the finish is a burnished bronze, which appears as a dark gunmetal with subtle bronze undertones. |
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P5558-86: Cranbrook Hanging Lantern $268 Ornate cast lantern features Tiffany style art glass. |
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Prairie Patina Small Hanging Lantern $300 Refined hanging outdoor lantern features a weathered patina finish with white opalescent art glass. |
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Broken Lantern Hanging on a Wall Made of Mud $39.99 Jim Richardson Broken Lantern Hanging on a Wall Made of Mud - Photographic Print |
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Monticello Outdoor Hanging Lantern $724 A striking choice, this outdoor lantern features clear watered glass set against a walnut patina finish. |
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Rustic Outdoor Hanging Lantern $444 This distinctive outdoor lantern displays a rustic finish and clear beveled glass panels. It includes 98" of extra lead wire. |
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Outdoor Hanging Candle Lantern $36.99 The Outdoor Hanging Candle Lantern is a great way to illuminate your outdoor patio. Can also be used to decorate for an outdoor party or celebration, even great to use for wedding decor. Features: • Made of High Quality Lab Glass • Comes with a wire spoon to raise and lower candles • Great for an outdoor party or wedding decorations • Use with candles or electric lightsSize: 10"tall x 5 3/8"diameter |
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Cambridge Outdoor Hanging Lantern $197 Crafted of brass in a brushed nickel finish, this outdoor lantern has a classic feel. Bent beveled glass and brass candle sleeves provide further beauty. |
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Lighthouse Duomount Hanging Lantern in Brushed Steel $305 Handsome Lighthouse duomount hanging lantern is reminiscent of contemporary mission with a nod to the nautical. Can be used as a hanging lantern or a flush mount. Try this versatile fixture indoor or outdoor, great for damp locations. It is finished in brushed steel complimented with etched opal glass. Measures 13"h as a hanging lantern or 12"h as a flush mount. |
Understanding the Symbolic Tradition of Chinese Hanging Lanterns
Since ancient times, Chinese hanging lanterns have symbolised a range of important cultural events and actions. They have stood for celebration, hope and rejuvenation as well as played a key role in daily life and important rituals. They have also been used to facilitate communication with the heavens, signify ceremonial activities and commemorate festivals.
Ceremonially, Chinese lanterns were used for burials, weddings and when moving from one place to another. On these occasions, the lantern frames would be draped with white gauze with four red symbol designs signifying "a hundred children and a thousand grandchildren" added. This was an expression of imparting good luck by wishing someone the blessing of a large family and respect in their old age. These auspicious lanterns were then suspended from the poles that carried the sedans which transported people during these events.
Some Chinese hanging lanterns were specifically used to act as a medium of communication with divine beings in order to make an appeal for health, wealth and long life. In these cases they would be inscribed with the characters representing "heavenly lantern", "the divine lantern", "heaven and earth lantern" or "heaven and earth divine lantern" and hung outside the supplicant's house for a certain period of time. In other instances where people wished to express their respect for the gods, they would hang bamboo or wooden lanterns outside their homes.
On a purely practical level, since the Chinese government in early times would seldom fund street lighting, people would also use lanterns as a means of illuminating their shops, homes and streets at night. If the weather was agreeable, the lanterns would remain lit until midnight to represent consideration for night travellers
Another symbolic use of Chinese lanterns was employed by traditional scholars. They would paste riddles or puzzles on the four sides of lanterns and hang them outside people's homes as an intellectual challenge. Those who had the good fortune to solve a riddle would be rewarded with either tea, firecrackers, beetlenut, a fan or a pencil (all highly prized items in those times). A hint of the reward to be expected for solving a particular riddle or puzzle would be included in the writing on the lantern.
When it comes to the broader cultural symbolism of Chinese hanging lanterns, they stood for the arrival of spring, the emotion of joy and the sacred renewal of the earth. The most important display of lanterns to signify this has historically been Shang Yuan, the Lantern Festival, which celebrates the return of the spring sun as the original creative power, which bring warmth back to the earth so that it can sustain its people with the rebirth of fresh vegetation.
Far from being merely a pretty decoration to add colour to the garden (as they are mostly used throughout the world in these times), when it comes to the symbolic value of Chinese lanterns, they have had a culturally rich and significant history.
About the Author
Rob Payne is the founder of Hanging Lanterns, suppliers of Chinese lanterns.
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