Christmas trees with tinsel glistened as they reflected candlelight. Through the years, silver was swapped for other less-expensive metals like copper, tin, aluminum and lead, according to the BBC.

Christmas trees with tinsel glistened as they reflected candlelight. Through the years, silver was swapped for other less-expensive metals like copper, tin, aluminum and lead, according to the BBC.

Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it - by the 16th century when sources record ...

When I was growing up, we decorated our tree on Christmas Eve, using tinsel, string lights, and boxes of tiny toys and figurines, brass stars, silver and gold glass balls, and other ornaments ...

The aluminum silver Christmas tree started out as a fad of the late 1950s and early ’60s, but it’s seen a resurgence in recent years. Skip to content WGN-TV ...

The aluminum silver Christmas tree started out as a fad of the late 1950s and early ’60s, but it’s seen a resurgence in recent years. Skip to content. FOX31 Denver.

By the 1930s and '40s, families were decorating their Christmas trees with festive candy canes and strands of tinsel. A young girl in front of a Christmas tree in Newton, Massachusetts, in ...

If you want to push the decor boundaries according to Brent, grab this 6-foot artificial Christmas tree that looks straight out of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The silver tinsel ...

First, less is more when decorating the tree, especially when discussing tinsel. Tinsel is made from PVC, a highly flammable material that, once lit, is consumed by fire in seconds.