DECORATIONS: CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS MADE OF GLASS.

The houses of Czech Republic are usually quite decorated,they have their traditional manger made of various materials, their Christmas trees whose manufacture is traditionally handmade among other decorations. The Krkonose region in northern Bohemia is where glass Christmas decorations are created. This region began to manufacture them since the nineteenth century and started all purely handmade.

Blown glass Christmas decorations are purely traditional in the Czech Republic, these are onion-shaped figures. Christmas trees are decorated with blown glass beads, which can be inherited by different generations. Each type of decoration can be created by a different company since most of them are handmade, that is, handmade, both its elaboration and painting its design, that is why they are so important for this country.

These Christmas decorations made of blown glass can be in the form of balloons, stars, bells, houses, the figure of a person or an animal, plus all its design and processing is done by hand, it can also be said that these decorations were of great importance to the country as they attracted a high demand and could expand to foreign markets, also these glass Christmas decorations were awarded in the world exhibitions of 1935 and 1958 held in Brussels.

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