{"id":1140742,"date":"2025-12-15T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1140742"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:36:32","slug":"paper-chains-are-the-internets-favorite-holiday-decor-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1140742","title":{"rendered":"Paper Chains Are the Internet\u2019s Favorite Holiday Decor of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I first saw red paper chains strung up in my friend\u2019s Brooklyn apartment last year, I thought: Cute!<\/em> What a fun throwback to Christmases of yore, and a way to make the place ten times cozier as we gather to drink wine, gossip, and be merry.<\/p>\n

At the time, that was the extent of my thoughts on paper chains. Now, fast forward to 2025, and I can\u2019t seem to escape them. They\u2019re in shop windows, on trees at the local holiday market, and all over my Instagram. Call it holiday-induced craftmania, or kindergarten chic. Paper chains\u2014the classic kind, made by looping strips of colorful construction paper together\u2014are having a moment.<\/p>\n

Since Thanksgiving, a seemingly endless stream of TikTok videos explaining how to make paper garlands has taken over my feed\u2014tutorials suggesting the specific papers, materials, and techniques to get the chunkiest chains or the most durable links. They experiment with velvet, felt, and ribbon, and offer advice on how to hang your decorations to create the most whimsical effect.<\/p>\n

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Paper chains certainly aren\u2019t new\u2014they\u2019re believed to date back to at least the 1800s, when they were first noted as a popular schoolchildren\u2019s activity\u2014but their online resurgence has brought them to a new audience eager to get their craft on. (And post about it.) Retailers seem to have noticed, too: A number of stores, including Toast, Anthropologie, East End Press, and Cambridge Imprint, sell paper chain kits, some of which have sold out online. On Pinterest, searches for \u201cpaper chains\u201d have spiked amid the holiday season.<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s behind this paper chain revival? For many, it\u2019s about a return to childlike wonder.<\/p>\n

Some call the trend a \u201crecession indicator\u201d (isn\u2019t everything these days?); others call it \u201cLittle Women<\/em> Christmas\u201d (\u00e0 la the Greta Gerwig version), or the kitschy polar opposite of \u201cRalph Lauren Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

It may also be, as others have noted, a response to the \u201csad beige\u201d trend of minimalist, neutral interiors. Just last week, Pantone announced their color of the year is literally white (or rather, \u201cCloud Dancer,\u201d as they call it), and there\u2019s already been pushback from those who prefer colorful chaos, texture, and nostalgia over a manicured, catalogue-ready look.<\/p>\n

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Sean A. Pritchard, the award-winning English garden designer, is a fully paid-up fan of paper chains as Christmas decor\u2014just take his holiday tablescapes in a recent Vogue<\/em> story as an example. For Pritchard, paper chains are synonymous with the magic of Christmastime as a child, a feeling many of us strive to recreate as adults. Plus, he explains, paper chains are a sure sign that you\u2019re having fun and \u201csurrendering to the chaos\u201d of the holidays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere can be a bit of snobbishness around Christmas,\u201d Pritchard adds. \u201cThis idea that we can have Christmas, but we should also have a tasteful<\/em> Christmas. I\u2019m just not interested in that at all. Thinking about being a child at Christmas, you weren\u2019t concerned about whether everything color-matched and whether everything was really elegant and whatnot. It was kind of just a free-for-all of color, shape, pattern, noise, lights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pritchard says that the paper chain trend might also be attributed to a rising interest in slowing down one\u2019s pace of living, noting that there are \u201cmental health benefits\u201d to crafting. \u201cWhen you\u2019re making a paper chain, it\u2019s quite therapeutic,\u201d he says. (Not everyone on TikTok agrees\u2014for every few wholesome videos about the comfort of crafting, there\u2019s a jokey, slightly unhinged one about how the quest to make paper chains brought some people to the edge of their sanity, one paper cut away from a full breakdown).<\/p>\n

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Still, paper chains carry an enduring timelessness and charm for Pritchard. \u201cI think it just transcends being a trend, for me. I think it will be something that is always a part of somebody\u2019s Christmas,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Delaney Lundquist, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based design manager and interior design content creator known as Tremont Home, has made several videos about the paper chain craze, and loves the fact that it\u2019s an activity you can share with friends and family. Lundquist recommends inviting people over to make paper chains together, and using scraps from around the house or from a local creative reuse center to be more creative and sustainable with your crafting. In this way, your decor becomes part of the festivities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the appeal of the paper chain is its simplicity,\u201d says Lisa Przystup, a writer based in Delhi, New York, who has been decorating for the holidays with paper chains for years. \u201cI really love that it kind of takes the whole \u2018throw money at it\u2019 aspect of decorating for the holidays and turns it on its head,\u201d she adds. For Przystup, making paper chains also \u201ctaps into that childlike joy of play, which I think is so freeing and sets it apart from more ambitious crafts.\u201d<\/p>\n

So as we settle in for the holidays, why not give it a try yourself? As you sip hot chocolate by the roaring fireplace (or, if you\u2019re like me, by a crackling YouTube yule log), you might find a new way to revel in the festive spirit\u2014and to make your inner kindergartener proud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Source URL: http:\/\/vogue.com\/article\/paper-chains-holiday-decor-trend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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