The tradition of dressing the Christmas tree appeared in the first half of the XVII century in Germany and in the Baltic States. Then the decorations were quite simple and followed the Christian symbolism. On the branches, apples were sangs as a symbol of fruits from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the candles symbolized the angelic purity, and the Bethlehem star served as if he served. In the USSR, its alternative was the red five-pointed star and peaks.
Glass balls appeared in 1848, after in Germany there were cripples of apples. Glassware from the town of Lausha was made in return for glass apples, which sold with great success. The first glass balls were pretty heavy, but for a couple of decades later, the glass oppows learned to make balls with thin walls that became much easier.
The first decorations of Christmas trees decoration were enough.
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The first electric garland appeared in the late 1870s. The American telegraphist Ralph Morris guessed to raise the thread on the Christmas tree of small signal light bulbs, which have already been used on telephone consoles.
In 1895, the first street New Year electric garland was made in the United States, which decorated fir in front of a white house. In Soviet Russia, the first garlands began to be made only in 1938.
Mishur appeared in Germany in 1610 and was made from the finest silver chips. But the silver quickly lost his shine and dashed out of the heat of candles, besides, this decoration was quite expensive. People rinsed Mishuur from the tin wire twisted into the spiral. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Foil began to do from lead, who did not tuck and retained his shine. But due to the risk of lead poisoning, its production was gradually discontinued. Mishur and the rain in modern form, from the PVC film, appeared in the 1970s.
Glass balls appeared in 1848
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The art of cutting patterns from paper appeared a long time ago, in about the second century of our era, when the paper itself was invented. But in Russia before the appearance of paper, Beresto (bark of birch) was often used. From it, the snowflakes were cut out, which were decorated with horses.
Gingerbread cookies are known in Europe from the XIII century. However, the tradition of his Christmas oven for Christmas in the form of various figures went from the English Queen Elizabeth I. In Russia, Baked Kisuli and Figure Gingerbreads, and the tradition of burning cookies and hang him on the Christmas tree appeared relatively recently.