While most modern artificial trees are lush and full ... Others see the chance to highlight ornaments. Feather trees are a German tradition from more than a century ago. Janice Sonnen likes ...

Faux trees are typically cheaper than real ones ... like these Guardsman Ultimate Dusting Cloth from Walmart. • A feather duster — flexible ones like Bona High Performance Dusting System ...

We weren’t allowed to touch it. I’m sure when it was brand new, it was a beautiful little tree. “ Germans devised the first artificial feather trees during the late 19th century in response ...

The use of artificial trees, mainly the goose-feather tree, became popular, and a thriving industry was born. Also known as Nuremberg trees, feather trees came in all sizes from as small as a few ...

Another advantage of these artificial trees was that celebrants no longer had to trek into the snowy woods to chop down a real tree. These feather trees, however, fell out of fashion during the ...

Aluminum trees were not the only artificial substitutes for the ubiquitous evergreen. Feather trees were popular for many decades, and other charming trees were fashioned from wood, complete with ...

Artificial berries were sometimes attached to the ends of the branches. German immigrants brought the tradition to the United States, and feather trees became popular during the 1920s, being sold ...

The first artificial Christmas trees were made of ... They were mostly made of goose feathers, with turkey, ostrich, and swan feather trees also available. German immigrants brought their trees ...

The feather tree, believedo to have originated in Germany, is an artificial tree that stands about 3 feet tall. You can fit about two dozen ornaments on its pencil-thin branches. Though it’s ...