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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
 
 

Victorian Christmas Ornaments

 

 

  Victorian Christmas Decorating


 
Victorian Christmas Ornaments
Make your own authentic 19th century ornaments. Print the designs ... gather up your supplies ... Create some Christmas magic!

Victorian Christmas Trees
Decorate your Christmas Tree in a truly  Victorian fashion with instructions  from an authentic Victorian magazine  featuring a variety of holiday themes.

Extraordinary Holiday Wreath
Colonial Williamsburg’s natural holiday decorations are only limited to the imaginations of their designers.

Victorian Christmas Tree Decorations 
Directions from a 1901Victorian magazine to make 8 authentic Victorian Christmas ornaments.

Dresden Star Heirloom Ornaments 
The story of a company dedicated to recreating the wonder of a Victorian Christmas.

Victorian Christmas Ornament- Free Craft
Download a free 1800s design for your own ornament.

Victorian Window Decor
This design is from an 1890s issue of Arthur's Home Magazine.

Decorating the Victorian Christmas Tree
How was the Victorian Christmas tree decorated.

Feather Christmas Trees
The first artificial Christmas trees were small tabletop trees made of goose feathers.

Christmas Putz
A miniature landscape arranged at the foot of the Christmas tree.

Victorian Holiday Window Displays
The beginning of an annual tradition begins in the 1870s at Macy's

Victorian Artificial Christmas Trees
In 1868, Harper’s Bazaar describes another style of artificial holiday tree that was made of “metal tubes, trunk, branches, and all in one..." 

Royal Christmas Tree
 Engraving of the Queen's family gathered around the Christmas tree at Windsor Castle in 1848.

Dresden Star Ornaments
One-of-a-kind, handmade Victorian Christmas ornaments

Victorian Chimney Ornaments 
Victorian Christmas ornaments from an 1864 Peterson's Magazine.

Victorian Santa Claus
Follow the directions from an 1867 Harpers Bazaar to make a truly Victorian Santa Claus.

The Victorian Christmas Tree
The history of the Christmas tree in the 19th century.

Happy New Year, 1876
Currier & Ives
, firm of American lithographers, wishes readers a Happy New Year in 1876.
 

The Victorian Christmas Tree
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert decorate a Christmas tree in 1860.

Kewpie Santa
 Advertisement for Kewpie's embroidery designs from the Royal Society of Kewpies.

 

              

Have a Victorian Christmas with a handmade porcelain ornament.

 


 

 

 

  

 

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