Christmas garlands (16 photos) Bashny.Net

December 22 is considered the official birthday garland.
It was December 22, 1882, Assistant inventor Thomas Edison's light bulb - Edward Johnson invented herringbone Electrogarlands that will decorate the green beauty at home for Christmas.



 
But Christmas trees were decorated with the usual long candles. Electrogarlands first advertisement was published in December 1901, but they became popular only with the 20-ies.

We have Christmas garlands began to spread after 1938 with a great break for the war years.
Let's try to see how the changed appearance of a garland over the years.
The first wreaths were produced in the late 30-ies with a break during the war, they look almost artisanal: ordinary automotive light bulb connected to a wire and painted in different colors.
In the late 50s there garlands of lights, figurines. Inside of thick glass figurines placed filament, fixed figure in the basement, as a conventional small light bulbs, and painted. Produced bulbs, stylized lanterns.



And there were more interesting garlands: with figures of pig, bear, car, blimp and other. Bulbs screwed into patronchiki with clothespins, and those attached to the tree. These garlands from the late 50's - early 60-ies



With the 60-ies the Soviet Union begins wide production of Christmas tree garlands. Apart from the usual round colored lights appear garland lights with elongated bulb in the form of candles, painted in different colors, and screwed in patronchiki on clothespins (total 18 pcs.). Later, this garland is known as "droplet».



After the flight of Yuri Gagarin and other successes of our country in space exploration, in the "space race" theme space becomes enormous popularity, there are toys in the form of satellites and rockets. Since 1967, the Kiev cable plant "Ukrkabel" launches Electrogarlands "Cosmos": on patronchiki with small light bulbs 13, 5 to put on different colored caps of soft thin plastic in the form of Saturn, Earth, sun, moon, space satellite, flying saucers, rockets asteroid. Garland was issued about the middle 70s.



In the 70s a very popular Christmas trees are lighting torches. They are produced in large numbers, many different types and forms. The same Kiev cable plant since the early '70s produces a similar "space" model "Lanterns».



Voronezh plant produces electronic devices such lanterns.



And "Forest Fairy Tale».



Another instance of Voronezh production, but another plant - Voronezh electrical - Garland "Golden Torch". Produced only a few years in the '80s. There is a completely different technology: patronchiki mounted on latticed lanterns, stamped from a thin sheet of yellow, each lamp can be easily disassembled into 2 halves. Figure lattice - in the style of Chinese lanterns, and inserted into the cylinder of color film. Garland is incredibly beautiful, but perhaps the most fragile of all Soviet: tin easily crushed, the slightest awkward pressing flashlight can lose shape.



In Moscow, since the 70s, produced a garland in the form of lanterns made themselves bulbs.



By this time, it is curious garland with lights in the form of multi-colored Christmas balls decorated with curlicues.



Romanian Electrogarlands "Luminare" («light»).



In the mid-80s, there is another type of lanterns garland "Raduga-1". In the case firmly takes plexiglass (plexiglass) - in the future from this material will be made lamp-shades almost all Soviet Christmas garlands. Each lamp consists of a hexagonal silver-plated plastic frame inside which is a filter.



Garland Maiden.



Of the original models 80 can note the elements of the garland with the foil in the form of flowers.



Source: www.christmasheaven.ru