Upside Down Christmas Tree

The Upside Down Christmas Tree is from a 12th century Central European tradition of hanging a tree from the ceiling at Christmas, the tree is inverted to ensure a smaller footprint for less-spacious areas, and allows more room for the accumulation of presents underneath. Originally designed for specialty stores to display delicate ornaments using a minimum of floor space, the unusual tapering shape allows the tree to stand in places that do not accommodate a traditional holiday tree, such as between two armchairs or in a corner. The trees weighted base provides extra stability to prevent tipping and leaning. The inverted shape makes it easier to see ornaments, which hang away from the dense needles and do not get lost in the foliage. If you would like to know where to find one, then please post to this blog...

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Victorian Christmas

One of the tricks that designers of Victorian Christmas cards used to use was to design cards that could be read right side up and upside down. In 1911, an unknown artist replaced Santa's sleigh with a recently developed mode of transportation - the airship.

Victorian cards incorporated obscure messages or images that were visible only when holding the card up to the light.

Today you can rarely find cards as intricate as those from the Victorian era or as beautifully coloured and engraved as those printed in teh early 20th Century in Germany. Germany was well known for its excellent printers.

One of the largest collections of Christmas Cards is at the corporate headquarters of Hallmark Cards, in Kansas City, Missouri. Hallmark began manufacturing cards in 1910. They have a collection of cards, not only their own dating back to the late 1800's.

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