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.

When you go to Lauscha, a handsome town in central Germany, you see Christmas. It’s in a very narrow valley, so it has a ...

Bottom line: Many vintage Christmas ornaments were made with clips built in to easily clip on to Christmas tree branches.

In the 1880s, entrepreneur F.W. Woolworth had the genius idea to import the first glass Christmas ornaments from Germany to ...