They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To….
By Twistie… and that’s not always such a bad thing.
Once the German tradition of Christmas trees was imported to England in 1841 along with Prince Albert, people had to come up with ways of decorating them. We all know about popcorn strings and candles and candy canes, but the endlessly creative Victorians came up with a plethora of ways of making their homes festive for the season, and some of them were less classically attractive.
Victoriana.com has compiled a selection of Christmas ornaments Victorians made at home that you can, too… if you really want to.
The one above is peanuts on a string. That’s right, those are peanuts wrapped in pastel tissue paper, fringed on the ends. For my money it’s miles and away better than the chimney sweep made of prunes.
