Garlands

A handful of nuts, grapes, and cookies, stringed on a thread, certainly goes for the first ornament garland on a Christmas tree. At the end of the 19th century glass bead garlands appeared, following the fashion of the day when women's hats were decorated with similar garlands. Beads were rather big in the beginnings (up to more than one inch in diameter), and, often, were decorated and painted. Later, beads became smaller, and garlands longer.