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christmas ornaments The ornaments we know and love first developed in Germany as a fine craft and then became a part of mass production as the industrial revolution expanded its reach. But the history of Christmas and mid-winter holiday decoration and design is a thread that takes us back to antiquity and even prehistory in many cultures.
The Romans and Egyptians decorated homes and trees with suns, deity symbols, and greenery. These decorations, and their accompanying celebrations (some carried over the line into debauchery) are but two examples of the deeply rooted human tradition of celebrating the change in the season and the promise of new life to come. In Europe, the tradition of ornamentation is first recognized in Germany with the decoration of evergreen branches with fruits and nuts. This tradition is first recorded in the 1600’s, but likely goes back much earlier.
Hand blown glass ornaments, initially called baubles, were designed and crafted by Hans Greiner in Lauscha, Germany in 1847. The ornaments came out of a glassworks founded by his grandfather and Christoph Müller in 1597. Greiner’s earliest ornament designs mimicked the natural world, initially taking the form fruit and nuts. Over time, these natural forms were abstracted, becoming spherical and taking on more of the qualities of the egg and orb shaped ornaments we see on classic Christmas trees today.
How are hand-blown Christmas ornaments made?
Custom glass Christmas ornament begins with the design of a mold. First carved in wood, the form becomes the imprint used for shaping the heated glass. A glass tube is attached to a blowpipe and heated until it softens and gives off a beautiful orange glow. The glass blower inserts the molten glass inside the mold and blows, forming the shape and imprinting the precisely christmas ornaments carved form into the ornament. The ornament is then removed from the blow tube with a pair of glass shears to cool. Each ornament can be decorated with color by adding silver nitrate or other metallic compounds to the inside and painted or decorated with metallic paints, pearls, rhinestones papers, metal, or synthetic materials on the outside.
The finest holiday ornaments utilize all of these techniques resulting in custom-crafted decorations of heirloom quality that can be enjoyed for generations to come.
The finest holiday ornaments utilize all of these techniques resulting in custom-crafted decorations of heirloom quality that can be enjoyed for generations to come.
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