garland
A garland is a decorative chain made of flowers, leaves, paper or other materials that is hung up on festive occasions, for example as room or table decorations, on the Christmas tree or around a person's neck. In India and other regions of Asia, flower garlands serve as a festive gift when visiting temples, at weddings, on New Year's Day etc. Garlands can be arranged next to each other or overlapping; the ends usually hang loosely.
Feston is also used as a more voluminous, stylized architectural ornament .
etymology
The word comes from the French "Guirlande" and the Italian "Ghirlanda" for a braid .
Picture gallery
Garlands
Front door frame decorated with garland
Garland on a Christmas tree
Garlands of light in Vienna, Graben (New Year 2010)
Folk festival decoration in Moncarapacho, Portugal
Festoons
Painted festoons
Feston on a classical facade
See also
literature
- Adolf Ernst Napp: Bukranion and Guirlande. Contributions to the history of the development of the Hellenistic and Roman decorative arts. Bechstein, Wertheim am Main 1933, DNB 570946492 (Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from a high philosophy faculty at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg 1930, 49 pages).
