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An extensive library of Victorian holiday entertaining, gift giving and decorating articles from over 100 years ago. Find plum pudding recipes, Victorian Christmas crafts, the history of the Christmas tree and Christmas cards. This is a great place to show today's children how Christmas used to be.

 
A Victorian Christmas
 
 

 

 

Holiday Window Decor

from Arthur's Home Magazine, 1890

 

 

Victorian window

 

Windows afford many opportunities for artistic and elegant decorative skills in holiday decorating. This design is an example of draping in gold-colored silk or white Burmese muslin, with the edge being fringed with gold tinsel balls. The drapery is tied at the center, at the corners, and once again below, as the sketch indicates, by tinsel cords and balls. The addition of palm leaves and pampas grass as ornamentation complete the tout ensemble. If the tint of the walls is pos­sibly pale blue or green, then the ribbons, fairy lights, and brackets will be pale blue or green accordingly, and the general effect could not fail to be pleasing in its simplicity and harmony.
 


 

              

Have a Victorian Christmas with a handmade porcelain ornament.

 


 

 

 

  

 

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