Tinsel, a festive, silvery decoration that once adorned nearly every Christmas tree, has a long and sparkling history. While ...

There were tinsel garlands or long strands of metallic tinsel called icicles, like on the tree shown above. Hanukkah tables were often decorated with ornate tablecloths. In the 1950s, ornaments ...

The tinsel tradition is long-running, but the rules have changed a little surrounding our favorite tree trimming option. It wasn’t Christmas at Grammy and Pop-Pops until a squat little tree was ...