How to make Christmas decorations

• How to make Christmas decorations

Soon the New Year and all we'll get a box of Christmas toys, and if you know how to make Christmas decorations? Recently I managed to visit one of the factories for the production of glass Christmas-tree toy in Nizhny Novgorod and spy out the process. Also want to see?

Before you get to the production itself, I suggest to admire the exhibition samples, which are located on the ground floor:

where the real Christmas story:

In one of the rooms there are old Christmas decorations that adorn the Christmas tree in the Soviet era:

And so it should look like a modern Christmas tree. All the rage:

Christmas decorations factory "Ariel" is engaged in production for 20 years. Look what a beauty:

It is possible to make special. order and balls will cause the image to your order. For example a series commissioned by the Metro:

It is in Russia such ornaments are relevant to the New Year and their use abroad all year round. Therefore, the factory no downtime even in the summer - paint and send the balls in the United States and other countries (even the balls with the image of Obama made by special order.). This continuation of the series about the subway:

In the manufacturing work only women, men have only one - the director. He also belongs to the idea of making the rafters under the roof in the form of Christmas trees:

It is possible and to buy them toys (little patience and we will go to production):

You can arrange a photo session in the fabulous scenery:

So, we climb to the second floor. The main artist factory develops designs and invents stories that would later be applied to the decorations:

In the production coming here so long glass sticks:

The stick is heated and divided into several smaller workpieces:

heated, pulled:

Section:

Next, the workpiece is heated and blown into the product the desired shape (special form):

This workshop takes one small study and work here for only 4 people

Next toys fall to the artists

Artists 3 times more than glass-blowers:

Each artist applies a specific plot. Everything is done by hand, but the pictures on the balloons hardly distinguishable from each other:

Figure is applied in several steps: take a toy and One coat of paint, while on its paint dries, khuzhozhnikov causes primary color to a second toy, etc. Then the artist returns to the first and draws the part of the plot, and again suspends toy, etc... . d.