Inge-Glas of Germany Christmas Ornaments Blog: January 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

It's Good to be Queen!

Have a little princess that needs a special Valentine gift? It's Good to be Queen is the perfect keepsake ornament for Valentine's Day!

Large pink heart with purple crown, decorated with "jewels." From the "Good Life" collection of Inge-Glas of Germany.

Life is a Box of Chocolates!

Heart shaped ornament, looks like a box of candy with three delicious pieces inside. This heart shaped box of candy ornament is from the "Chocolate Chillout" collection of Inge-Glas. Ornament measures approximately 4 1/2". Ornament was introduced 2009.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Noah's Ark from the Storybook Collection

Inge-Glas has two styles of Noah's Ark from the Storybook Collection. Both are similar, but one has a pair of giraffes on the front while the other has elephants. I'm not sure which of the ornaments is the latest style.

Both come packaged in the wood shave keepsake box Inge-Glas is so popular for. This makes such a nice
gift!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Choose your Cappuccino!

Hot, steaming Cappuccino with delicious whipped cream and topped off with a sprinkling of cocoa sugar! Choose from cream color, medium brown or dark.

Cappuccino Choice from Inge-Glas

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

2010 News!

Over 120 new items from Inge-Glas for 2010!

Two new themes are "Memory" and "Snow Kinder."

"Memories" represents glass ornaments blown in original moulds from their antique mould collection of over 10,000 moulds. Hand painted with their exclusively developed nostalgic paint colours reminiscent of the early 1900's. You will feel a wave of emotion and nostalgia - truly these ornaments are reminders of happy moments and unforgettable times with family and friends.

"Snow Kinder" depicts memories from childhood days of white Christmases. Children playing and having fun with lots of snow, bringing happiness and peace to the hearts of the young and old.

"Fairytale Forest" which was introduced in 2009 continues to offer many new ornaments featuring characters from famous German fairytales. Meet Hansel and Gretel with the witch and gingerbread house, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and the Dwarfs and many more!

A new "Classic" line will include ornaments with a European trend and fashion line which features the very popular "Gourmet Christmas" "Cafe' Espresso" and more!

Inge-Glas of Germany

Welcome to our Inge-Glas of Germany Christmas Ornament blog! We'll be posting photos of our favorite Inge-Glas ornaments and news from Inge-Glas. Heirlooms from Inge-Glas of Germany are mouthblown and handpainted exclusively with the Star Crown. The exquisite ornaments have been produced by the Muller-Blech Family since 1596. All Inge-Glas ornaments are mouth blown and hand painted in workshops in Germany, following the centuries old tradition. Inge-Glas offers superior Germany quality, true Heirloom treasures.

Inge-Glas is Green!

April 28, 2008
Cannon Falls, MN

As retailers and consumers embrace the concept of green business and eco-friendly companies; Inge-Glas® of Germany is proud to inform you that their factory uses only a pure, high grade German glass and lead free paints, lacquers and glitters. They are a 100% lead-free ornament manufacturer.

Unlike other ornament suppliers, Inge-Glas® owns its own factory in Germany. They control all materials used in the manufacturing, packaging and shipping of their heirloom quality ornaments.

They manage all aspects with regard to their product and human life by creating an environmentally safe workplace.

Inge-Glas® is a "green" company and you have their assurance when you buy Inge-Glas® you are buying an environmentally safe heirloom keepsake for you and your children.

Inge-Glas® remains steadfast in maintaining their duty to the ecological future of our planet and preserving century old tradition.

Blowing Glass Ornaments

A hollow glass tube is chosen based on the size and dimensions of the ornament to be created. The glassblower manually rolls the tube with his fingers over the hot flame until it is pliant. One end of the glass tube is sealed in the flame and once the glass is ready, the glassblower will place it into the mouls. The mould is clamped down around the glass while the blower breaths steadily into the glass tube to press the glass into all crevices of the mould. Experience and instinct are necessary from the glassblower for this first production step. The glass ornament is then placed on sand to cool. After the ornament is blown, it is given one full day to rest before it is sent to be silvered.

Painting

Up to thirty single cycles are necessary to paint the details on the ornament. Every color is individually applied and painted with the utmost attention and care to details, like eyes, pupils, and eyebrows. The highly qualified Inge-Glas painters are skillful and very experienced. Every ornament is hand painted through all cycles by the same artist. This gives every Heirloom ornament its extraordinary personalized touch and makes each one unique. It can take anywhere from two to four days to complete the painting process.

Life Touch

A new and innovative painting technique developed by Birgit Mueller-Blech. With precise and meticulous detail, skillfully trained master artists apply ultra fine feather strokes reveling delicate life touches to enhance the uniquely beautiful Inge-Glas Christmas ornaments.

New collections with this new and innovative technique include Innocent Hearts - remembering the innocent times, pure and honest hearts, goodness and warm loving memories of days gone by. Those special childhood moments are captured forever with Innocent Hearts.

The Largest Antique Glassblower Mould Collection

The largest antique glassblower mould collection in the world has been assembled by the family Mueller-Blech. Comprised of around 10,000 moulds from the last two centuries, it is truly an outstanding treasure for the family owned company Inge-Glas. Many of these moulds are used in their production today.

Nearly all of the moulds are from Lauscha, in the Thuringian forest, the homeland of the Inge-Glas founder Heinz Mueller-Blech. The majority of this collection has always been privately owned by the family as they accumulated moulds over time and passed their treasures and craft on to their children and grandchildren. Generation after generation, they passed the valuable moulds on to the next, always with the awareness that this collection is not only part of Germany history but also the future of their glassblower dynasty. The family tradition is more than 400 years old.

Today there are only a few glassblowers still existing in southern Thuringia and northern Bavaria, which hand produce mouth blown Christmas ornaments in the old tradition. With the decline of glass blowers, the existence of the large mould collection of the Mueller-Blech family, the preservation of the craft and the future of mouth blown glass ornaments is very important. The variety of the different mould designs is most extensive. The diversity of many bells, hearts and stars, angels, churches, Santas and Christmas trees, which can ee seen in the Inge-Glas collection, someone may question if there are any more new designs which a glassblower hasn't produced so far. Antique moulds already exist of bible story designs and nativity figurals, houses, windmills, flowers and flower baskets as well as birds and animals from the farm and the wild, but also tea and coffeepots as well as cars and zeppelins, airplanes and ships, toys and baby designs, gingerbread figurals and ice cream cones, shoes and hats, devil heads and lucky charms, fruits and vegetables, fairytale figurals and teddy bears, snowmen and reindeer, fire trucks and steam engines (locomotives), guitars and trumpets, snowflakes and icicles, acorns, pinecones, and the list goes on.

Christmas ornaments decorating trees all over the world - endless and timeless.

Every ornament hand produced by Inge-Glas today is a true piece of valuable German heritage and craftsmanship which people enjoy today as much as in the past. The preserved and protected moulds are highly treasured by the family Mueller-Blech for generations to come.

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