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The special holiday decorations that have long been associated with a Williamsburg Christmas are featured in this exciting new book from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Beautiful photography, descriptive text, and 28 charming color drawings present a wealth of ideas and how-tos for creating imaginative wreaths, cones, swags, roping and other decorations for mantels, stairways, windows, and tables.
Fresh and dried plant materials are used separately or are combined ways to help you re-create a Williamsburg Christmas in your own home.
One section focuses on how to plant and care for topiaries, popular and versatile decorative forms that are fun to grow and use at Christmastime. Another illustrates and discusses the wide variety of Christmas trees that visitors to Virgina's colonial capital so enjoy -- among them the folk art tree at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, the gigantic tree that dominates the great hall at Carter's Grove, and the elegant Regency-inspired blue spruce in the lobby at the Williamsburg Inn. Close-ups show several of the ornaments used on these trees and the design sources that inspired them.
The Christmas holidays are a wonderful time for entertaining and trying new recipes. Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg illustrates many ideas for both formal and informal holiday table decorations for festive occasions. Also included is a selection of tasty and unusual recipes, several of which are based on eighteenth-century receipts.
CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, USED lightly, both in vg condition, 1991, 138 pages
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