A delicate blown-glass ornament that looks like the face-tattooed musician sold “like crazy” last year, said Ashlyn Shadden, 33, who runs the store with her mother.

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.

Free-blown and molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Ball with finial on bottom, thin, swirled band around center. Mirrored silver. Metal cap around top opening, may be a later addition. Thin ...

Glass Christmas ornaments go back 140 years. ... On their smaller, cooler flames, they created a thinner glass. Christmas-ornament glass. "It's blown from hollow tubes of glass," Radko said.

In the 1890s, 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.

“A delicate blown-glass ornament that looks like the face-tattooed musician sold ‘like crazy’ last year, said Ashlyn Shadden, 33, who runs the store with her mother. Buyers included many ...

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.

“They’re actually really nice hand-blown glass, high-quality glitter,” Saling said. “It’s funny, once you hang them on your tree, no other ornament looks like they do.” ...

Where to shop: The Christmas Sleigh is stocked floor to ceiling with European imports, from hand-blown glass ornaments and glittered Ad-vent calendars to scene-­stealing nutcrackers and traditional ...