A Collection of the Best Christmas Holiday Resources
Want to know the history of Santa Claus? This Wikipedia article gives you the original Christian origins of Santa Claus, his history in other countries, folklore, Santa’s American origins and NORAD, the program that tracks Santa’s annual trip to deliver gifts.
Wikipedia Article on Santa Claus
Vintagexmas.com sells antique ornaments and has a good article on spotting fake reproductions when buying antique ornaments. The article covers reputation of the dealer, condition of the ornaments and specific popular antique ornaments that have fake reproductions out in the market.
Spotting Fake Christmas Ornament Reproductions
This site has a list of close up photos of vintage Christmas ornaments to view. There are beautiful photos of vintage cotton, glass, Dresden, Heubach/Bisque-Face, and Sebnitz Christmas ornaments. Some of the glass and metal based ornaments are really amazing, check out their photo galleries.
Vintage Christmas Ornaments Photo Gallery
Here are instructions to knit or crochet Christmas bell ornaments for your tree. I have a crocheted bell ornament my mom made years ago when I was a child and it hung on our Christmas tree every year. I think she used spray starch on the ornament once it was finished to make it stiff [...]
This DIY Victorian Christmas ornament idea is an easy one with the use of a hot glue gun, some ribbon or lace, Victorian style pictures cut from old Christmas cards or gift wrap and orange juice lids. Comments about the article include a good idea to use the ornaments as gift tags as well. Step [...]
This About.com article goes into the history of Santa Claus and how our current version of Santa Claus came to be. There is also information about items that may be considered Santa collectibles of interest to collectors.
Santa History and Christmas Collectibles
Vintage Holiday Crafts has free vintage Christmas cards and Christmas graphics you can view and download. The vintage Christmas cards are really wonderful with some beautiful artwork involved in each Christmas card.
Vintage Santa Claus Christmas Cards
Bill’s Antique Christmas Lights Museum has historical information on Christmas lights, from how Christmas lights originated to light sets from 1900 to the 1950’s, complete with cool photos of light sets and their original containers. Click on the thumbnail photos and you can get a look at the antique light sets up close.
Bill’s Antique Christmas [...]
The Online Victoriana Magazine is devoted to Victorian era design. Here you will find article information from the magazine itself as well as links to sites on numerous topics including decorating a Victorian style Christmas tree, making your own Victorian Christmas cards, historical pictures of Victorian toys, creating authentic Christmas ornaments and much more.
Online Victoriana [...]
WishbookWeb.com has a list of vintage Christmas catalogs you can look through online. Vintage Christmas catalogs include Speigel 1933, Sears 1943, JC Penny 1966, FAO Schwartz 1967 and many more catalogs. Take a step back into products that are priced low and memories of vintage catalog items you may have grown up with.
WishbookWeb.com Vintage Christmas [...]
