- Golden Glow: www.goldenglow.org
The website of the worldwide largest club for collectors of antique Christmas from ornaments and Santas to lighting, tinsel, snowmen, feather trees, snow babies, post cards and more: information, membership, convention.
- Ellen Pool: www.davidpoolantiques.com
An interesting, well displayed shop for antique Christmas ornaments and other old stuff.
- Susanne Freericks: www.susantik.de
An interesting choice of antique Christmas ornaments, especially scraps and die cuts.
- Betty Bell: www.bettybell.com
There are surprisingly few websites that are specialised in antique Christmas ornaments. Here an example from US, worth visiting.
- Mary Morrison: www.marymorrison.org
All you need to know about Snow Babies.
- Lianne Krüger Sullivan: www.dresdenornament.info
“A side dedicated to the appreciation of a lost art form”, that is to the manufacturing of Dresden cardboard ornaments. Beautiful pictorial material.
- Kugels: An Antique Christmas Obsession: www.kugelobsession.com
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this book.
- Dresden Star Ornaments (Glenn Giaimo): www.victorianornaments.com
“One-of-a-kind Victorian Christmas ornaments, lovingly hand-crafted from beautiful antique chromolithographs, old glass ornaments, and a variety of vintage Christmas decorations, making them truly look like antique Christmas ornaments.”
- Rucus Studio: http://www.rucusstudio.com
“Unique treasures created by nimble fingers to enhance holiday traditions.”
- Antike Spielzeugwelt. Toys von A bis Z (Gerd Fichtner): http://www.antiktoysstore.com
Rich source of antique toys, dolls, and Christmas items.
- Cotton Batting Ornaments (Lucy Webber): users.rcn.com/lucywebber
“I use many of the techniques used by the original makers. Some of the batting ornaments I make are copies of old ornaments, and some are my own creations.”
- The Feather Tree Co.: www.feathertrees.com
All about feathertrees, the first artificial Christmas trees.
- Wolfgang Metzner: www.krippen-unikate.de
Building of Nativity Scenes or crèches on order.
- Inge-Glas: www.ingeglas.com
Manufacture of new Christmas ornaments.
- Deutsches Weihnachtsmuseum: www.weihnachtsmuseum.de
Pictures from the exposition of the first museum in Germany which is exclusively dedicated to Christmas.
- Käthe Wohlfahrt: www.bestofchristmas.com
All you can imagine about Christmas.
- Gartenschätze. Dekoratives für Haus und Garten: www.gartenschaetze-online.de
A shop with nice things for house and garden, among others also new Christmas decoration (only available in German language).
- Weihnachten im Erzgebirge: www.erzgebirge-ganznah.de
About origin and significance of some typical Christmas items of the German Erzgebirge.
