Varieties of firs with artificial needles

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

A Christmas tree with artificial needles is a great option for a festive attribute. Such a tree can be purchased to use it for more than one year. Consider the varieties of synthetic needles.

Varieties of needles

Artificial needles are created in three material options. It differs in appearance, in cost and in sensations of touch. To date, there are three most common materials:

• artificial PVC Christmas trees;
• from fishing line;
• cast.

Artificial needles, regardless of the choice of material, may be different in color and shade. It is decorated with artificial snow, frost, decorated with sparkles, cones and berries. There are options for every taste and budget. You should familiarize yourself with them in more detail.

PVC

A Christmas tree with artificial needles can be created from film. Such needles are soft. This tree is the leader in popularity, as it differs in budget cost. In twigs, the base consists of wire. It is twisted, weaving in parallel the film base of the needles, whichcut into thin strips. Such needles turn out to be flat, two-dimensional. The principle of creating "needles" is similar to how voluminous tinsel is woven.

The material from which spruce branches are made tends to have differences depending on their length, color and density. This property allows you to create different designs.

For such a Christmas tree with artificial needles, it tends to be soft, it does not cause discomfort when touched. And to make the branches look natural, a little short winding is added to the winding at the base, using the same material, but brown in color. This achieves the effect that the wood is translucent and adds a natural look.

Soft film is used to create Christmas trees completely from PVC or as an addition when branches are made of cast needles and fishing line. If the materials are combined, then PVC is added closer to the thickness of the spruce trunk. Then the crown will have the advantage of additional volume and density, and at the same time the cost of manufacturing finished products will decrease.

Needles from fishing line

Artificial needles, the material of which is fishing line, are distinguished by rigidity and crease resistance, round cross-sectional shape. The process of creating a tree consists in winding twigs on a wire base. The appearance of such branches is more similar to natural needles. Such needles are long, and the branch base is created from a short brown winding that imitates wood.

It should be noted that spruces, whose artificial needles were createdfrom fishing line, are not so common. In appearance, they are more like imitation pine than spruce.

Combinations

Manufacturers often practice creating combinations of alternating branches. The fishing line is combined with PVC material in two options:

• in the classic way of alternating line/film branches;
• in an unusual way, mixing the line and PVC at the same time, so that the branches have a higher fluffiness, so they look more beautiful.

Casting

An artificial Christmas tree with cast needles is considered the most expensive product, at the same time it is distinguished by its realism and beauty. According to the manufacturing method, artificial branches are almost indistinguishable from natural needles.

The name of cast needles characterizes the method of its manufacture. Each such branch is cast from a dense rubber material, allowing you to create individual shapes that imitate natural needles as much as possible.

Artificial spruce with cast PVC needles is voluminous in shape, with a thick base and a pointed tip. But such material will not be able to damage human skin, as it is made of elastic rubber. If such needles are crushed, its shape can be restored almost immediately.

According to the shape of the casting, the needles can turn out like a fluffy decorative wild forest spruce, which has thin branches. The shape of the needles themselves can be straight, curved or located at any angle, depending on the base of the branches. To achieve complete naturalness, it is practiced to apply staining.bases of branches in brown tones.

Varieties of casting

Cast needles tend to be divided into the following varieties:

• Fully molded. Such Christmas trees are as realistic as possible, each branch is given attention when creating it by casting into a mold. These trees are considered the most beautiful and, therefore, the most expensive firs. The cost is also explained by the complexity of production.
• Molding combined with PVC material. This method is the most popular. Such spruce can be purchased at a more affordable price.
• Casting combined with fishing line and PVC. With such an unusual combination, models of designer Christmas trees are created. They are deliberately made to look different from natural.

Summarize

More and more people are trying to choose artificial spruce to save nature. The overview of the varieties of such products presented in the article will help the buyer to make a choice.