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Friday, November 5, 2010

The Bridal Collection from Inge-Glas

This collection of good wishes is for new couples to begin their lives together. In the old country, it was customary to give these twelve ornaments as symbols of a happy home to ensure a love partnership's success. Twelve ornaments include Angel (painted with LifeTouch technique) - God's guidance in the home; Bird - Happiness and joy; Fish - Christ's blessing; Flower Basket - Good wishes; Fruit Basket - Generosity; Heart - True Love; House - Shelter and protection; Pine Cone - Motherhood and fruitfulness; Rabbit - Hope and faith; Rose - Beauty and affection; Santa (painted w LifeTouch technique) - Unselfishness and goodwill; and Teapot - Hospitality. Comes in Wooden Box with Certificate and Legend.

Perfect wedding gift for a new couple. Also would make a great gift from the groom. Visit us at Trendy Tree to see more keepsake ornaments from Inge-Glas of Germany.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Precious Steps Baby Shoe

The Precious Steps Baby Shoe Christmas Ornament with Swarovski crystals.

When these ornaments arrived, I took a quick look and said....oh yes, that is so pretty......But, today a customer purchased one and when I took it out of the carton I really got a good look. This ornament is exquisite! My first look, even though I thought it was pretty, just didn't do it justice! I'll get more photos up just as soon as I can.

This truly would make a unique keepsake gift for that newborn or baby girl.......the butterfly on the toe is so different. The Precious Steps Baby Shoe - perfect gift)))

Visit us at Trendy Tree to see these great new keepsake ornaments from Inge-Glas.

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!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Baby's First Christmas

The most important first Christmas is remember with an Heirloom gift.

Inge-Glas of Germany's exclusive "Baby's First Christmas"

A wooden keepsake gift box wet of three mouth blown and hand painted ornaments, specially designed with a gift card for baby. Includes a Christmas Tree, Yellow Duck and Santa.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Bible Story Collection

Children of all ages enjoy reading and hearing their favorite "Bible Stories." Hundreds of stories and parables can be found in the Bible, accompanying us our whole life through. Inge-Glas brings these stories to life. "Bible Stories" bring fond memories of our youth and lessons learned. Real and true, they teach the moral truth. These stories stay with us forever and remain in our hearts.

The ornaments of the "Bible Stories" collection bring well known stories from the Old and New testament to life. A new way to tell the story!

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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