Flocked Christmas Trees

Applying the artificial snow on the Christmas tree is called Christmas tree flocking. So, Flocked Christmas Tree is that which is flocked artificially but looks like real snow. Christmas tree flocking differs from home applied flocked Christmas trees, to professionally sprayed at nurseries, to artificial pre-flocked trees.

Nursery people use a derivative of wood, cellulose, water, fire retardant and spray adhesive to make the Flocked Christmas Trees. If the flocked Christmas trees are famous in your locality you can regularly purchase pre-flocked Christmas trees or obtain your Christmas tree customized flocking when you buy the tree from a nursery. A nursery person normally uses a spray applicator which is attached to the hose for flocking trees, but flocked Christmas trees are available in some nurseries as flocking likely to be familiar only in few regions.

You can purchase artificial Christmas trees with pre flocking. Flocking can be done either only on branches or entire tree. Flocking can change the color to yellow over some time. Artificial trees which are both pre-lit and pre-flocked including Christmas lights are there in market.

Flocked Christmas trees were started in 1940s in few regions of United States. Kits for Christmas tree flocking are there in market you can purchase them to create your own Flocked Christmas Tree with the help of vacuum cleaner. The flocking is powdery and it is available in white, pastel pink and pastel blue. Making the mixture of starch, soap flakes and water with small quantity of blue food color and applying this to a tree looks like the dusting of cold. The fresh snow is another familiar Christmas tree flocking technique.

Today, Christmas tree flock kits are available in the craft stores. Other flocking accessories are there, like gum, ornaments etc. The gum can be pasted on ornaments so that flocking is pasted in gum areas only to give look like special patterns. Christmas tree flocking can be used on stairway banisters, garlands, mantels and wreaths also.