Inside Look: Daylight's Handheld LED Magnifiers

As part of the new StarMag range, Daylight Company have brought out a handy due of LED magnifiers to make working with details and fiddly crafts much easier! The duo, consisting of a small handheld magnifier and a large handheld magnifier (sold separately) are new on the scene for crafters needing a closer look at their favourite hobbies! So let's take a look at them in more detail! 

Handheld Small LED Magnifier RRP £12.99

This little lighting solution comes with a 3.5X acrylic crystal clear lens (7.5cm/2.75") and two bright daylight LED's which will never need replacing! There is also a handy stand to allow you to position it on your table for hands-free magnification. This is the perfect craft kit essential to keep you enjoying your hobbies wherever you are, whether that's on-the-go or on your holidays! 

Handheld Large LED Magnifier RRP £16.99

This larger handheld magnifier offers the same great features including the handy pop-out stand and bright daylight LED bulbs. However, this tool offers a high quality 2.0X acrylic lens (11cm/4") with a 4.0X inset lens (2.5cm/1") - greater magnification for all your crafting needs! 

Both of these products are made from high-quality, long lasting materials along with a stylish satin silver finish! And, with them coming in for less than £30 for both, they make a great Christmas gift idea! 

Jak Heath Reviews the LED Foldi

We popped an LED Foldi in the post to Daylight Ambassador Jak Heath to see how she got on using it for all her favourite hobbies! Here's what she thought...

There are times in a crafters life that you need to pack up a work station and just take it with you which can be done so that no matter where you are going you can whip out the craft and never be bored. I have always done this on my travels but I have often hit a stumbling block in the way of good lighting. It never seams to be in the right place in hotel rooms - Daylight Company have that covered for us! Not only is this lamp a God send but it is slick and stylish too.

I knew when looking at the images of this lamp that I liked it but I hadn’t realise just how much I was going to like it until I had it in my hand.

Whether traveling to a friends house or a craft club, this little sleek beauty will fit in your handbag neatly in its very own black pouch, and it is so powerful, it gives 8 hours life from batteries or you can plug it into a USB on your computer or laptop or even buy a plug adapter for it.

this is me popping it into my handbag and showing just how sleek it is.

Click here to see this review live on Jak Heath's blog, where she is also giving all her lucky followers the chance to win one of these lovely little lamps in time for Christmas! 

Jayne Netley Mayhew tests the Studio Clip-on Lamp & Stand!

We asked one of our Daylight Ambassadors, Jayne Netley Mayhew, to test-drive the Studio Clip-on Lamp and Stand RRP £114.99, one of our most popular lighting solutions for artists! Here's what she thought...

If I had to sum up this lamp in one word only, it would be ‘superb’. I have had a few standing lamps over the years, all of which have fallen apart, joints loosen or they are unstable. This lamp sturdy, it’s adjustable and holds together well. Plus it gives you the option of adding more than one light. The light itself is good and casts not hint of yellow to what you are working on, only the true colour of your medium. As an artist and designer this is has to be one of the major points for any lamp.

The height of the stand is very good, so you can adjust placement of the light itself. Giving you the option of using it for over-all lighting or more of a spotlight. It has a clever and easy devise so that the light itself can not be knocked or slip down the stand, so simple but so effective.

I have used the lamp in my kitchen where I often sit and stitch in the evening and then moved it up to my studio over my easel to work under, I can’t make up my mind where it will stay.

Would I recommend it to someone looking for a standing lamp, a resounding ‘yes’, I really can’t find a fault with it.

Bev Rochester Joins as a New Ambassador for Daylight Company!

Crafting queen Bev Rochester joins the Daylight Ambassadors. Read below as she introduces herself and describes the difference Daylight lamps have made for her! 

Hi there, I’m Bev Rochester and have been crafting in some form for as long as I can remember.  I have done the whole tapestry to crochet to knitting to embroidery to even Faberge eggs malarkey, but my latest passion is papercrafts and rubber stamping, and has been for the last 5 years or so. I am a fuss-pot and am fanatical about getting things just right so for me having the perfect lighting is paramount.  I have used Daylight lamps since I first discovered them years ago and can honestly say with hand on heart that I could not craft without them, even on the sunniest day. 

I am on several design teams and have a blog with lots of inspiration, tutorials and videos (and yes, Daylight lamps have helped me out so much when shooting videos, especially in the depths of winter as they give true daylight – essential for colouring videos). I don’t have the best eyesight (old age and all that!) so good light is essential especially as I work fulltime so when I craft at night after a full day at work I don’t want to have to suffer eye strain.

Watch this space for some more reviews! 

New Daylight Ambassador, Ruth Singer!

Textile artist, writer and tutor Ruth Singer is our newest Daylight Ambassador! Below she gives us a taster of what she has to bring to the panel!

I'm a textile artist, historian, writer and tutor, based in a wonderful old hosiery factory in Leicester. I work mainly by hand, exploring traditional and invented textile techniques such as fabric manipulation, appliqué and embroidery. Good lighting is vital to my work, making it easier to see the stitches I am making whatever the colour of cloth and helping avoid eye strain, particularly when working into the evening on deadlines, when Daylight lighting is essential. I think Daylight Lamps will make a big impact on my work and I hope to share a review with you soon! 

Michelle Fallon - Swan Floor Lamp Review

Until I had my Daylight Lamp I struggled to balance my business and my hobbies, but then the Swan Floor Lamp entered my life and equilibrium was restored.  I just LOVE this lamp.  First of all it’s on wheels so I no longer need several lamps in different locations, I just wheel my lamp into whichever room I am in (this works as I live in a cottage but could be a bit cumbersome if you had to carry it upstairs as it’s quite heavy). 

The other thing I love about this lamp is that it has a bendy stem (I think the correct word is neck?) which means you can bend it down as close to you or as far away as you want.  This is perfect because, especially when I am on the sofa, normal floor lamps are just that little bit too far away and they always seem to shine in the wrong direction whereas the daylight lamp allows you to adjust the position of the light without having to move the lamp or furniture around. 

The bulb itself is white and not yellow and most importantly not hot!  I don’t find my eyes getting tired when working with it, as they would with a standard light.  Obviously if I have been working 12 hours they are tired but you get my drift, don’t you?   The other thing I love is that there’s no glare from the light.  It just lights up the area you are working in a comfortable way. 

What else can I say?  Oh yes, there’s also a handy magnifying attachment that comes with this lamp.  Personally I don’t tend to use this as I don’t wear glasses but my mum loves it!  She finds it perfect for reading in bed for all the reasons above, i.e. no glare and it’s easy to adjust the light and magnifying glass to the position you want.  However I do think this would be invaluable for intrinsic sewing such as fine embroidery or beading work.

Overall I have to say my Daylight lamp has not only saved my money as it’s a one for all rooms lamp, but I am pretty sure it has saved my eye sight too as most of my sewing is done at night with artificial light.  I highly recommend it to any crafters or bedtime readers!

Product Review: Jak Heath Road Tests the Triple Bright Lamp

Over the last few weeks I have been using the Triple Light Daylight lamp from the Daylight Company  to craft under. 

The image above was took in full daylight 12:00 noon in my home, you can see the difference it makes to my work area even at day time.

I first used it clamped onto my table top the I got the floor stand which is amazing, the structure of the legs are cast iron so it is really sturdy.

When I first thought about the triple light I was thinking triple the brightness comparing it to my original desk lamp and magnifier but what I hadn’t banked on was the fact that it would have triple the spread of light, this for me as a crafter is the most amazing part of the lamp.

The image above shows the lighted area that this lamp gives to me.

I often have what you could say is a dumping ground on my desk, I tend to gather things that I would like to use in making a card and plonk them on the desk what the lamp does to help is give me no shadows so that colours are true and it is easy to map out the card with matching items before gluing them in place.

I’m so happy with the productiveness of this lamp, over all a big 10 out of 10 I’d give this one.

You can also find this review on Jak Heaths Blog. The Triple Bright Lamp is one of the brightest daylight lamps, available for £139.99 with a range of additional accessories sold separately. To view the full range of Daylight Lamps click here. 

Introducing Penny!

Welcome to Penny, the newest member of the Daylight Ambassador Programme! Here she tells us all about how she got into crafting and why she's looking forward to working with us! 

I've been creative ever since I can remember, starting in my bedroom as a child wielding scissors and glue, needles thread and wool, dressing my dolls and making models. 

The creativity continued into adulthood and family life making clothes and toys for my children and encouraging them in their own crafting activities.  It was only when they had flown the nest that I took the giant step onto a degree course in Visual Studies at, what was then, The Norwich School of Art and Design (now NUA)

 With the degree under my belt I ventured into cyber space, creating my virtual world, the Planet Penny website. It’s here I share my enthusiasm for creating and making as well as the joys of living in this particular corner of Norfolk.

My choice of crafts is still eclectic but I was inspired last year by some wonderfully colourful yarn which I made into some adorable rainbow coloured mice, but unfortunately I was unable to source in the UK.  I now sell the yarn in rainbow packs which has led me to create patterns for knitting and crochet.  I also teach needlefelting, and write tutorials and book reviews as well as the popular Planet Penny blog.

A lot of the time I struggle with lighting, not just for close or detailed work but especially for photography so I have been delighted to discover just what a difference a Daylight lamp can make. I'm looking forward to be able to share reviews with you 

Sleek and Slimline!

We know how important it is to use good lighting for your favourite hobbies. But, something we have learnt from our customers, is that it not only needs to work well, but look great too! Many Daylight Lamps come with smooth glossy finishes in white or black. However some of our newer lamps have taken a stylish twist, sporting a luxurious brushed chrome finish that compliment almost all home decor! 

Some of our favourite chrome lamp designs can be found in the Slimline Collection - a duo made up of a fully flexible table and floor lamp!  

These elegant lamps are ergonomically perfect - allowing you to adjust the flexible arms, directing the light to exactly where you need it! They both come with an 11W energy saving daylight tube offering bright, white, full spectrum light that helps when matching colours, and working with small details and contrasts! 

The Slimline Table Lamp, £119.99, comes complete with a metal clamp so you can fix it to your workspace! It can be positioned perfectly above the hands but below the eyes, and is perfect for use with sewing machines, office desks and beautician tables. 

The Slimline Floor Lamp, £159.99, reaches new heights, lighting up even the largest work spaces (offices, craft rooms, workshops, beauty treatment rooms etc!). There are two unique flex points allowing you to manipulate the light where it's needed, while adjusting the height and angle of the lamp. 

This pair offer the perfect combination of height, flexibility and the perfect hobby and task lighting! To find out more about these products or any others in our range, please visit the Daylight Website. To tell us which is YOUR favourite, join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter!  

25 Years of Bright White Light!

Leading lighting specialist, The Daylight Company, is pleased to announce that the company has now been in business for 25 years. Since launching in 1988, daylight™ has dedicated its efforts to providing crafters, artists, beauticians, and business professionals alike with their unrivalled full spectrum bright white light.

Company Director Patrick Jacquelin discovered the ‘Daylight Bulb’ while on a trip abroad. Recognising that natural daylight is the healthiest and most comfortable for our eyes, he realised that a ‘daylight simulation effect’ could benefit thousands of individuals who need natural light for everyday tasks. It was from this that ‘The Daylight Company’ was created. Since then, the company has grown and expanded across the world, with daylight™ now positioned as the market-leading brand of specialist lighting technology, and a favourite brand among the craft and hobby industry.

In order to mark this occasion, Daylight will be celebrating by hosting a range of promotions, online events, and competitions for everyone to get involved in – just watch this space! This can be found over the coming months by visiting daylight™ on Social Media, just find us by searching ‘Daylight Company’ on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

For more information about Daylight Company please visit www.daylightcompany.com where you can also find out more information about their product range, promotions, stockists and dealer support. 

Jayne Netley Mayhew joins Daylight Ambassador Programme

Here's the latest introduction to the Daylight Ambassador Programme, Jayne Netley Mayhew. Here she gives you the lowdown on where she's at today and what projects she'll be working on this summer!

From an early age I was painting, sewing, knitting, I really can’t remember a time when I did not have something creative on the go. As a child I was often ill and spent a lot of time in bed. To keep me occupied my mother would give me wool, silks, paper, paints and pencils and I was needless to say in my element.My brothers and sister are all artistic and we spent a great deal of our childhood drawing and painting together.

My success came about initially from producing two books illustrating with author Leslie Jackman. Through Leslie I was spotted by David & Charles who saw my freehand embroidery and challenged me to come up with a cross stitch design. I came up with four, and from that it seemed to snowball! Janlynn started to kit pack my designs and I was asked to do my first Cross Stitch book!

Several books and kits later and I still love to design and stitch, with many of my designs featured in Cross Stitch magazines and the launch of a website where I sell a few select charts. However, over the last few years, my artwork has taken the foreground and is being reproduced by Joanna Sheen to be used in Papercraft and Rubber Stamps. I'm currently working on a Decoupage set of paintings and when they're finished I will start working on the next planned Papercraft CD! 

My last major project for myself was a patchwork quilt - patchwork, appliqué squares all stitched by hand for a king-size bed. It took me several very enjoyable months to finish! All my own projects are fitted in between my designing, painting and stitching, and I do have an on going quilting masterpiece that i've been working on for years! (Watch this space!!). 

I've already reviewed lamps for Daylight in the past, you've probably seen me on their website putting the Stitchsmart Set to the test! I find Daylight lamps make my life as a stitcher much easier, particularly ones that allow you to move and tilt the head as you can then position the light wherever you want to work! It's going to be good road testing some more products and keeping you up to date with my new projects!

Bright Light for Less!

Imagine a place where you could get the ultimate lighting essentials at a discounted price... well now it exists! We have just introduced an  exclusively new Clearance section to our website, just in time for Christmas!
To grab a bargain, either click here or click click on the clearance tab on the website.

Have fun searching through our high quality products and save yourself up to 20%  off the retail price! 

World Sight Day

World Sight Day, 11^th October 2012, is an important day. Not only to celebrate the wonders of sight, but also to focus the world’s attention on blindness, visual impairment, and rehabilitation of the visually impaired.

Sight is an incredibly important factor when it comes to lighting. We know how important it is, and we also know how easy it is to strain your eyes under dim lighting. You can take various steps in caring for your eyes, and potentially eliminating problems with sight later down the line, one of those steps is working under ‘eye-friendly’ lighting.

When it comes to designing our lamps, we ensure that every single one offers the same unrivalled bright white light that offers a full spectrum light for our customers to enjoy. By avoiding lights that flicker and produce glare, you avoid those sore, tired eyes that people often associate with working under a lamp. You will also notice that our lamps help you see more than you could before – small details and contrasts will become visible and colour matching becomes much easier. When working late into the night or for long periods of time, you will no longer notice those red itchy eyes that can take the fun out of your favourite hobbies.

When we worked with low-vision artist Barrie Goodfellow, he described how using his Daylight Lamp (Professional Artists Lamp) he was able to see his work in ways he hadn’t before, and his art was improved as a result.

So for anybody who enjoys crafts, arts, model making, puzzling, writing, reading, crosswords and more – take a moment to reflect on World Sight Day and the difference a Daylight Lamp has made to you, or the difference it could make! 

It really IS the ultimate tabletop lamp!!

This is not just a lamp. It is everything you could want in a lamp. It is beautifully crafted, energy saving, produces natural looking light and can be used for almost anything. This ultimate lamp is great for scrap-booking, needlework, nail painting, knitting, or any other sort of craft. Its light can reach into the places normal daylight can't. At £114.99, you won't find much else that can do what this one can do. This really is the ultimate tabletop lamp! Check it out at The Daylight Company - Ultimate Tabletop Lamp

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Daylight’s™ Slimline Reaches New Heights!

Daylight’s Slimline table lamp has reached new heights with the introduction of the Slimline Floor Lamp.

This lamp offers the ultimate in design and flexibility for those who love to craft from their comfy sofa or favourite armchair. More importantly, its flexible neck ensures the 11w Daylight™ tube can be directed exactly where you need it, giving you the best results each time!

Patch workers, quilters, knitters and crafters alike will now be able to benefit from a lamp suitable for any project you decide to take on! It makes it much easier for you to work with fine details and simplifies difficult colour matching. It can also be raised to brighten up even the darkest of craft corners!


If you are seeking a fabulous looking lamp for your home then the luxurious brushed chrome style of the Slimline fits in perfectly with any home interior and enables every crafter to work in style! Meanwhile, the incredibly slim design doesn’t get in the way like some other cumbersome craft lamps. The Daylight™ energy saving tube supplied with the lamp is low-heat and flicker-free, giving you the best light ever to work with details and colours.
You will never experience a more comfortable light for your eyes, and will be surprised at how much longer and later you can craft without eye strain or tired eyes!

Find out more about this product at:
http://uk.daylightcompany.com/product/slimline-floor-lamp

NEW Ultra Slim Magnifying Lamp

Check out the NEW Ultra Slim Magnifying Lamp from The Daylight Company!

The Daylight ESD Ultra Slim Magnifying Lamp is built expressly for use in clean rooms. The lamp provides not just the best light and magnification available today; its special static dissipative coatings and other materials stop the build up of electrostatic fields and prevent the attraction of particles.

The 22091 ESD Ultra Slim Magnifying Lamp Specs:

• Ergonomic and professional ESD safe magnifying lamp
• For use on workstations where ESD sensitive devices are being handled
• Powerful 28w Daylight™ energy saving tube (150w equiv.)
• 17.5cm/7” precision optical white glass lens to see more of your work (1.75X, 3 diopter)
• Flicker-free electronic ballast, work for longer in optimal comfort
• Practical lens cover to protect the lens from sun and dust
• 4cm/1.5“ precision optical white glass swing arm lens included (4.0X, 12 diopter)
• 13cm/5“ precision optical white glass lens available separately (2.25X, 5 diopter)

This beautifully slim lamp has a Quick Lens Swap System™ to increase the magnification in seconds and without you having to use any tools! It has a solid stem and metal clamp for your workstation so it will stay sturdy throughout the day and the high quality metal arm gives it optimal flexibility and durability against anything your tools can throw at it. The new and improved head-joint smoothly directs the light exactly where you need it.

So don't miss out on this modern Daylight necessity.
Visit our website to find out more:
http://uk.daylightcompany.com/

Foldi with a new sleek white finish

Be creative wherever you are with the brand new white Foldi!

This stylish portable LED lamp from the Daylight Company will light up your work at home, at hobby classes and on holiday. Foldi™ features 30 eye-popping Daylight LEDs to give you comfortable glare-free full-spectrum light. It gives you up to 8 hours of light on batteries and unlimited light when plugged into your laptop. With its slim design and smooth lines, the Foldi™ Lamp fits easily in your handbag or luggage. Perfect to enjoy crafts and reading wherever you go.

This super sleek addition to Daylight’s range of practical lamps will be the coolest crafting light this autumn. More and more home products such as computers, mobile phones and games consoles are experimenting with a luxurious white finish, and Foldi™ is no exception, along with chrome sides and a slim design. Flip it open to light up the 30 LED’s and enjoy the most relaxing and comfortable lighting ever.

It comes with 3 x AA batteries to give you up to 8 hours of light on the go. You can also use the supplied USB cable to power the lamp when working with your laptop or computer. A power adapter is available separately if you prefer to use Foldi™ on mains electricity. This LED lamp will never stop to light up your work, wherever you are.

As you would expect with a product of this quality, it comes with a black pouch to protect your lamp when travelling. The lightweight compact design makes it ideal to take in your handbag or luggage. Don’t leave the house without your personal travel light.

Visit this product on our website:
http://uk.daylightcompany.com/product/foldi-LED-lamp