Inge-Glas of Germany Christmas Ornaments Blog: June 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Footprints in the Sand - Ornament in Keepsake Box

Footprints in the Sand

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

History of Inge-Glas

The history of the Inge-Glas company began in 1596.
The major milestones in chronological order:

1596	Foundation of the parent glassworks by family ancestor Christoph Müller in the Thuringia Forest
1954	Business registered by Heinz Müller-Blech (13th generation) in the North Bavarian town of Neustadt bei Coburg after the partition of Germany
1972	Represented for the first time at the International Nuremberg Toy Fair
1987	Inauguration of the new 6,000 sqm production and warehouse complex
1996	Site area doubled to 12,000 sqm
2001	Foundation and inauguration of the Historical Christmas Museum in Neustadt bei Coburg

1947: Company founder Heinz Müller-Blech as an apprentice

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Hand Rolled Sushi Christmas Ornament Inge-Glas - in Stock!

Hand Rolled Sushi Christmas Ornament

112709 Gourmet Christmas collection by Inge-Glas of Germany

Hand rolled Sushi ornament measures approximately 3 1/2", made of European mouth blown, hand painted glass.

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Flowers for You - Snow White's Dwarf Ornament Just Arrived!

Flowers for You Dwarf Christmas Ornament

From the Fairytale Forest collection of Inge-Glas of Germany. One of Snow White's dwarfs.

Made of European mouth blown glass, hand painted with Life Touch technique. Ornament measures approximately 4 1/4" Packaged in a royal blue gift box.

This ornament was created using the new "Life Touch" Life Touch is introduced by Inge-Glas, an amazing development adding to their colorful 400 year family history of German glass blowers; a classy new and innovative painting technique known as "Life Touch." With precise and meticulous detail, skillfully trained Inge-Glas master artists apply ultra fine feather strokes revealing delicate life touches to enhance their uniquely beautiful Christmas ornaments

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Squeeky White Mouse Clip on Style Christmas Ornament

Squeeky White Mouse Christmas Ornament

Inge-Glas of Germany 148201 Christmas Visions Collection

Delightful white mouse, clip on style ornament. Made of European mouth blown glass and hand painted. Measures approximately 6 1/2" from nose to tail; body of mouse measures approximately 4"

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Toy Time - Child on Rocking Horse

Toy Time Christmas Ornament

Inge-Glas of Germany 101409 Innocent Hearts Collection
Child on rocking horse Christmas ornament. Made of European mouth blown glass and hand painted using the Life Touch technique. Measures approximately 4 3/4" Packaged in royal blue gift box.

This ornament was created using the new "Life Touch" Life Touch is introduced by Inge-Glas, an amazing development adding to their colorful 400 year family history of German glass blowers; a classy new and innovative painting technique known as "Life Touch." With precise and meticulous detail, skillfully trained Inge-Glas master artists apply ultra fine feather strokes revealing delicate life touches to enhance their uniquely beautiful Christmas ornaments.

Visit Trendy Tree to see more Heirloom ornaments from the Innocent Hearts Collection of Inge-Glas of Germany.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Review of Frosted and Guilded Walnut Christmas Ornament

Frosted and Guilded Walnut Christmas Ornaments

Review of Upstate NY Lady
"It looks like they used a real walnut to make the mold. Just the right size for a table top tree or placement in the upper branches of a large tree. Well made. Purchase with confidence from the fine people at Trendy Tree, I do."

In Europe, walnuts were used as part of Christmas Eve games, and feasts, One game the children especially enjoyed playing called for cracking the shell of a walnut, putting a small lit candle in it, and floating it in a pan of water. A boy held his breath as the candle melted down because if the candle burned down to the bottom before turning over, it meant the boy would live a long life. A girl would carefully watch the lit candle in the walnut shell, hoping hers would stand the longest, which meant she would marry a good husband.

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Luscious Lemon Christmas Ornament New for 2010

Luscious Lemon Christmas Ornament

108810 Inge-Glas of Germany Farmer's Market Collection
Introduced 2010

Tart, yellow citrus fruit ornament with dark green leaf. Made of European mouth blown, hand painted glass. Ornament measures approximately 2" in width 3 3/4" in ht to top of crown.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Watermelon - Summer's Best Dessert!

Customer review by Upstate NY Lady

"This brings back memories of watermelon rind pickles. A lovely version with nice details, very well made. Purchase with confidence from the fine people at Trendy Tree, I do."

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Sled Racer from Inge-Glas

Sled Racer Christmas Ornament

Inge-Glas of Germany Innocent Heart Collection
103910 Introduced 2010
Made of mouth blown, European glass and hand painted with the Life Touch technique.
Measures approximately 4 1/4"
Packaged in a royal blue gift box

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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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