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history of Christmas toys
How did the Christmas decorations
In the past all Christmas decorations were edible wafer and sugar figurines, fruits, nuts and vegetables, sweets.
How did the Christmas decorations
Toys are also made from rags, straw, colored ribbons.
How did the Christmas decorations
In the 18th century there was a colorful paper flowers, angels. Gilded nuts and cones, painted eggshell, wove chains.
How did the Christmas decorations
In the early twentieth century the trees were decorated with cotton toys, paper garlands.
Cotton toys are made of pressed twisted cotton, which is screwed onto the skeletons-the skeletons in the shape of animals and people. Painted the billet was coated with starch paste with mica, why they become hard and a little bright.
By the mid-twentieth-century assortment of Christmas toys became very rich, but did them out of less effective materials than today. Instead, they have invested a lot of imagination. Silvered cardboard stamped a variety of birds and animals.
In the second half of the 20th century in Russia was made the first Christmas balls from clear or colored glass. For painting Christmas decorations used silver and gold dust. Each toy is done manually.
The glass blowers imagination knew no bounds: they did birds, Santa Claus, grapes, and all manner of tricks and anyone that comes into my head: jugs, pipes in which it is possible even to blow my own horn.
Christmas decorations were varied depending on the fashion.