Created by a German immigrant named Max Eckardt who grew up near the German village of Lauscha where blown glass Christmas ...

Kugel glass ornaments These German blown-glass ornaments often resemble a bundle of grapes or a bumpy berry, or they take the form of simple but oversized baubles about 8 inches in diameter.

The things you learn as the display designer at Longwood Gardens, 2013 Christmas version: 1. Different varieties of apples all float differently. And if you're trying to find red apples that float ...

In the 1890’s, Woolworth’s Department Store in the U.S. sold more than $25 million in German-imported ornaments made of lead and hand-blown glass each year. Soon, other countries wanted a ...

Glass Christmas ornaments go back 140 ... He designs them here in the U.S. But it's in Germany ... they created a thinner glass. Christmas-ornament glass. "It's blown from hollow tubes of glass ...

It was once one of over 1,500 manufacturers in this part of Eastern Germany, blowing glass ornaments and painting them by hand. But today, most Christmas decorations are mass-produced in China ...

Well in this German town, these intricate and delicate glass balls still get blown and moulded traditionally by hand. CHECK OUT: Mother City Bakes: Where to get your festive cake and eat it too. The ...

Old World Christmas, a shop that sells traditional, mouth-blown glass ornaments (including quite a few pickle ornaments) prints the origin “story” of the pickle tradition in every ornament box.

The things you learn as the display designer at Longwood Gardens, 2013 Christmas version: 1. Different varieties of apples all float differently. And if you’re trying to find red apples that ...

Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition. Back in the 1600s, trees displayed in homes were not decorated with glass ornaments, but rather fruit.

For some shoppers at Panache, a boutique in Saint Jo, Texas, it wouldn’t be Christmas without Post Malone. A delicate blown-glass ornament that looks like the face-tattooed musician sold “like ...