Feather Tree Ornament Crafts

Antique postcard illustrating a decorated feather tree.
Find even more restored Victorian Scrap here!

     The following feather tree ornament crafts are very light weight and smallish or even miniature.

1. Make these tiny pears for your feather tree...
   
2. DIY Corn On The Cob Cotton Batting Ornament
3. Craft a Pea Pod from Cotton Batting
4. Pen a Sequin Drum for your vintage inspired tree
5. Make a Pasta Angel Ornament
6. See vintage German Beeswax Ornaments
7. DIY Miniature Cotton Batting Cherries
   
8. The Bride's Christmas Tree
9. Traditional Gilded Walnut Ornaments
10. Large Online Victorian Scrap Collections for your feather tree craft projects
11. You can craft cotton strawberries for the tree too!
    
12. See the Grimm family Feather Tree decorated for Christmas
13. Fold Victorian Wire Ribbon Rosettes
14. Cut and Paste Victorian Clown Paper Rosette Ornaments
15. Craft an Old-World, Cotton Batting Santa
16. Assemble Victorian Scrap Ornaments for Christmas Fairs
17. How to make mini cotton batting candy canes...
    
18. Craft your own reproduction retro elf drummer
19. Handmade Pastillage Christmas Ornaments
20. A very small marbleized bauble for your Christmas tree
21. Craft tiny sea horse ornaments from cotton batting...

More About The Feather Tree & It's Decoration:

• How to make a German feather tree - history and how to film of an interview with Ellen(ie) Bennett 
• Do you know what a feather tree is?
• Tarnished Treasures shares about her feather trees
• Jeri at Hopalong Hollow talks about creating a Victorian Christmas tree
• Alice and Anne share about family Christmas
• The History of Christmas Feather Trees from The Ford Museum
• The Oklahoma Traveler talks with Nita Williams about her hobby
• Froebel Stars are frequently hung on feather trees
• German glass ornaments in American (pdf)
• Vintage Dresden and Pressed Cardboard Christmas Ornaments
• Paper Ornaments and Dresdens by the Merry Christmas Collector
• Czeck Beaded Ornaments typically found on early feather trees
• "The Christmas Tree Book" by Phillip V. Snyder
• My Top Three Magazine Issues for Antique Ornament Collectors
• See the Victorian scrap reproductions reproduced at Gail and Giaimo's craft studio
• Grace Moravian Stars
• Traditional Christmas stars made in Germany
• The Minnesota Historical Society talks about German Christmas ornaments
• Decorating a seven ft. feather tree from Tarnished Treasures

Feather tree gifted to me from my mother-in-law many years ago.
My feather tree was handmade by
  Twins Feather Trees of Ohio in 1991 and they are still in business!

Left, a cotton batting feather tree by kathy grimm. Below, antique glitter houses made in Japan.