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Victorian Christmas decorations can
be used to add charm and elegance
to your Christmas tree decorations.
In fact, the Victorian Christmas tree,
with its elaborate decorations became
a tradition of United States and later
of United Kingdom. This tradition
was popularized by the Germans. Victorian
Christmas decorations began during
the reign of Queen Victoria. Before
that the Englishmen were unaware of
Santa Claus or Christmas Crackers.
They did not know about Christmas
cards and there were no holidays during
Christmas. The wealth and technologies
generated by the Industrial Revolution
brought about changes in Christmas
celebrations. During this time, books
like “Christmas Carol” were published
(written by Charles Dickens) which
encouraged Christmas celebrations.
Victorian Christmas decorations include
a whole range of items like Santa
Claus, Christmas tree, Christmas crackers
as well as shrubs like the holly,
the laurel, the hemlock, and other
fine native evergreens in tree, shrub,
and vine. In fact, decorating the
house with greenery is typical of
Victorian Christmas decorations. Thus,
cedar and the trailing evergreen may
also be used. They look beautiful
when they are first decorated. Since
they dry up soon, they look faded.
Celebrationsonnet.com helps you with
some common Victorian Christmas decorations
like:
- Top of the mantle may be covered
with tree branches. To this, fruits
like pineapples, oranges, apples,
pomegranates and berries or grapes
may be arranged to decorate the
place. Foam boxes may be hidden
behind the greenery to arrange the
fruits at various heights. The greenery
may be adorned with pearly beads,
tassels and ribbons.
- The mantle may be otherwise decorated
with five to seven like-colored
pillar candles on various blocks
of wood at different heights. The
greenery may be wrapped around them
and white lights may be threaded
throughout the greens. The lights
are to be concentrated around the
candles to create a glow of light.
- A beautiful Victorian Christmas
tree may be created with garlands
of pearls, silk roses, feathered
birds and clip-on candles.
- The front stairway may be dressed
in the Victorian theme with greenery,
garlands, wide burgundy ribbons
and ornaments.
Thus the Victorian Christmas decoration
is all about decorating the Christmas
tree in the Victorian style so that
it looks gorgeous.
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