![]() There were as many as 400 local Keepsake Ornament Collector's Club chapters in the US. By 1998, 11 million American households collected Hallmark ornaments, and 250,000 people were member of the Keepsake Ornament Collector's Club. The Hallmark Keepsake Ornament collection is dated and available for just one year. The first collection included 18 ornaments, including six glass ball ornaments. In 1973, Hallmark Cards started manufacturing Christmas ornaments. Many silver companies, such as Gorham, Wallace, Towle, Lunt and Reed & Barton, began manufacturing silver Christmas ornaments in 19. As of 2009, the Christmas decoration industry ranks second to gifts in seasonal sales. New suppliers popped up everywhere including Dresden die-cut fiberboard ornaments which were popular among families with small children.īy the 20th century, Woolworth's had imported 200,000 ornaments and topped $25 million in sales from Christmas decorations alone. ![]() Other stores began selling Christmas ornaments by the late 19th century and by 1910, Woolworth's had gone national with over 1000 stores bringing Christmas ornaments across America. In 1880, Woolworth's began selling Lauscha glass ornaments. William DeMuth created the first American-made glass ornaments in New York in 1870. ![]() He made a fortune by importing the German glass ornaments to the United States. Woolworth discovered Lauscha's baubles during a visit to Germany. In the 1840s, after a picture of Victoria's Christmas tree was shown in a London newspaper decorated with glass ornaments and baubles from her husband Prince Albert's native Germany, Lauscha began exporting its products throughout Europe. On Christmas Eve 1832, a young Victoria wrote about her delight at having a tree, hung with lights, ornaments, and presents placed round it. Soon, the whole of Germany started to buy Christmas glassware from Lauscha. Other glassblowers in Lauscha recognised the growing popularity of Christmas baubles and began producing them in various designs. After the nitrate solution dried, the ornament was hand-painted and topped with a cap and hook. The original ornaments were only in the shape of fruits and nuts.Īfter the glass cooled, a silver nitrate solution was swirled into it, a silvering technique developed in the 1850s by Justus von Liebig. The artisans heated a glass tube over a flame, then inserted the tube into a clay mold, blowing the heated glass to expand into the shape of the mold. The popularity of these decorations grew into the production of glass figures made by highly skilled artisans with clay molds. Glass baubles were first made in Lauscha, Germany, by Hans Greiner (1550–1609), who produced garlands of glass beads and tin figures that could be hung on trees. The first decorated trees were adorned with apples, white candy canes, and pastries in the shapes of stars, hearts and flowers. The modern-day mold-blown colored glass Christmas ornament was invented in the small German town of Lauscha in the mid-16th century. There were shining flags and lanterns, and bird-cages, and nests with birds sitting on them, baskets of fruit, gilt apples, and bunches of grapes. There was every kind of gilt hanging-thing, from gilt pea-pods to butterflies on springs. Hale's story "The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree" offers a short catalog of the sorts of ornaments used in the 1870s: Festive figures and images are commonly preferred. ![]() ![]() Such collections are often passed on and augmented from generation to generation. Ornaments are almost always reused year after year rather than purchased annually, and family collections often contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and decorations created by family members. Ornaments are available in a variety of geometric shapes and image depictions. These decorations may be woven, blown ( glass or plastic), molded ( ceramic or metal), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques. Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs" or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. ![]()
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