Victorian Christmas Ornaments Can Help Relive A Bygone Era–Shop for various Victorian Christmas Ornaments

If there’s one thing that can surely be said about the Victorian era, it’s that It was an era of visual excess. Arguably the beginning of the whole ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ era, the Victorian age brought lavish and ostentatious designs to the forefront of modern society at the time. While this era is largely looked back on fondly for the era of peace and prosperity it brought to the British people (and much of the rest of the world as well), it was quickly eclipsed by the Great Depression and the two World Wars that followed it.

Thomas Kinkade Victorian Christmas Crossing Animated Christmas Tree Ornament- Of course this elegance is a perfect match for the Christmas holiday season, as the holidays are often a time when people go out of their way to excessively dress up and decorate their homes as outlandishly as possible. The modern design aesthetic of minimalism and simplicity is thrown out the window in favour of Victorian lavishness and grandeur, often at the expense of the fashion sense which would otherwise stay most people’s hands.

Victorian Christmas ornaments make the perfect complement to this design insanity we call holiday decorating. The Victorians valued bright, often gaudy colours to help catch the eye, and this was reflected in their choice of colours for designs, which were often garishly bright, and included such non-holiday inspiring colours as creams and gold. In fact our modern Christmas colours of red and green were rarely used during Victorian era Christmases.

Victorian Christmas ornaments and decorations that are still in wide use today include ribbons, which they loved to drape over everything, bows, figurines, and garlands, which they would hang wherever they could. These are necessities for a Victorian themed holiday celebration. Tree ornaments of the era were typically constructed of glass with a metal top for hanging them on the tree. The insides of these Victorian Christmas ornaments would often be filled with yet more colourful ribbon, or confetti.

If you’re aiming for a full blown Victorian style design, be aware that Christmas lights will clash heavily with the look and feel you’re aiming for. That’s not to say you can’t use them at all, but at the ver y least blinking lights should be avoided entirely, and if possible, gold lights should be used exclusively, as they have the effect of soft candlelight. That said, candles should always be used to light rooms whenever possible for the perfect illumination effect.

The Victorians are well known even today for their love for over-top-excess, and if there’s one area this trend has carried on through the years, it’s certainly Christmas. Rather than worry about how our designs may fit into society’s current trends, we’re free to let loose, as nothing is really taboo when it comes to holiday decorating. Thinking like a Victorian may indeed make the process of decorating for the holidays that much more enjoyable and far less stressful.

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