Abstract: A decorative lighting assembly has the form of a grid or lattice in which a plurality of wires form a baseline and first and second branches of the assembly. The second wire branches intersect with both the baseline and first wire branches at nodes of the assembly. Light sockets are connected to selected wires of the nodes. The wires and light sockets are maintained in place at their respective nodes by enclosing at least some of the intersecting wires with a tying wire and forming a knot in the wire proximate to the light socket so that the knot and light socket are inhibited from significant movement relative to each other.