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Benefits touted for feather trees included the elimination of a trip to the tree lot and the lack of shed needles. [3] Today, feather Christmas trees are valued as a collectible antique. [4] One 90-centimeter (36-inch) German tree sold at auction in 2008 for $230. [5]
The German feather trees were one response by Germans to continued deforestation in Germany. [3] Developed in the 1880s, the feather trees became increasingly popular during the early part of the 20th century. [3] The German feather trees eventually made their way to the United States where they became rather popular as well.
On his largest tree — a white, 10-foot pre-lit twig tree with branches that extend out horizontally — he hangs his ornaments about 2 inches apart, starting at the base of the tree to the tip ...
A spanbaum ("wood shaving tree"), variously referred to in English as a hand-shaved tree, wood chip tree or span tree, is a handmade ornamental tree which is usually part of a pyramid ornament. They are mainly manufactured in woodturning workshops in the Ore Mountains of Saxony in eastern Germany .
To help combat the shortage in the 1880s, Germans began making artificial goose-feather trees. Throughout the next few decades, other materials were used for artificial tree production in other ...
A depiction of Boniface destroying Thor's oak from The Little Lives of the Saints (1904), illustrated by Charles Robinson.. According to Willibald's 8th century Life of Saint Boniface, the felling of the tree occurred during Boniface's life earlier the same century at a location at the time known as Gaesmere (for details, see discussion below).