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Decorating your home with traditional Victorian touches for Christmas can add a traditional and historical touch to the holidays. Victorian Christmas decorating often involves homemade products made with fresh, rich greenery, flowers, pine cones, berries, nuts and fruits to create colorful, festive displays.
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- Traditional Victorian Christmas decorating typically involves elaborate displays of decorations, including ornaments, bows and wreaths
- Pearls and rose-colored bows are often used to decorate Christmas trees and wreaths
- Garlands to hang on the tree can be made of cranberries or popcorn
- Victorians had very little money to spend on extravagant decorations; they used a lot of homemade products
- Small cakes or other treats were often hung on Christmas trees as ornaments
- Colorful Christmas flowers like poinsettias or even roses were also interspersed between the Christmas tree branches
- Artificial Christmas trees were made from goose feathers; swan, turkey or even ostrich feathers were also usedVictoriana.com: Feather Christmas Trees
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Victorian Christmas Decorations
Filling your home with beautiful Victorian Christmas decorations often involves adorning the Christmas tree with traditional Victorian ornaments and bows. Often the decorations are rose-colored. Some of the ornaments can be made out of paper using origami. Victorian Christmas decorations may also include ample use of greenery, including holly, mistletoe or poinsettias. -
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