Christmas Tree Ornaments Ideas

The Decorated Tree is an interesting book full of many ideas for making traditional ornaments for your Christmas tree. The subtitle of the book is Recreating Traditional Christmas Ornaments and it covers a remarkable variety of Christmas tree ornaments from days gone by with photographs and detailed instructions on how to make them.

Part of the description of the book from the inside front cover says, “ In its 400 year history, the Christmas tree has borne an astonishing variety of objects, everything from intricately carved porcelain eggs to cornucopias stuffed with sweetmeats, from Scandinavian solider cookies to miniature cardboard steamships spouting cotton smoke.”

Here are some of the chapter topics:

The Paradise Christmas tree
The Lichtstock Christmas tree
The Christbaum Christmas tree
The Scandinavian Christmas tree
The Pennsylvanian Dutch Christmas tree
The Southern Christmas tree
The German Christmas tree in America
The electric Christmas tree

The chapters, such as the 20-page chapter on the English Christmas tree, each feature an excellent photograph of the specific Christmas tree with period-specific tree ornaments. This chapter, like the others, has many color photographs of the particular ornaments for this theme and instructions on how to make them.

The Decorated Tree: Recreating Traditional Christmas Ornaments is published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1982.

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