Czech Glass Christmas Ornaments
Czech glass Christmas ornaments are hand-blown and hand-painted baubles made in the glass towns of northern Bohemia, above all around Jablonec nad Nisou and the Krkonoše foothills, where the craft grew out of the region's bead and glass-button industry in the mid-nineteenth century. Workers blew thin globes from molten glass, silvered them from inside with a solution that gave the characteristic metallic glimmer, and then painted them by hand with snow, berries, flowers or fairy-tale figures before hanging them from the family fir tree. The delicate ornaments became a celebrated export, so pri