Victorian Christmas: Source Book With 10 Projects : 75 Victorian Scraps Plus Four Christmas Cards [Hardcover]

Michelle Lovric (Author), Maggie Philo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1995

Using traditional Victorian methods of decoupage and painting techniques such as faux-plaid and simple gilding, the authors have designed ten Christmas gifts that anyone can make. In addition to complete instructions, the book also contains a history of all the customs and rituals of Victorian Christmas, charming festive quotations from literature, and seasonal recipes. 75 embossed cut-outs.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

With 18 sheets of embossed die-cut paper scraps packaged together with a 48-page source book, this nifty package provides step-by-step instructions for 10 projects, and even gives you the paper motifs with which to make them. The technique is basically a variant of decoupage, but most of the cutting has already been done for you. As Victorian Christmas explains, the lovely scraps can be used to decorate a cookie tin, pie platter, table centerpiece, wassail bowl, potpourri jar, or your own decorations. Sprinkled throughout are beautiful photographs and paragraphs explaining various Victorian customs, such as the traditions of gift-giving, card-making, and tree-decorating.

From Publishers Weekly

This appealingly designed portfolio, pack with instruction book and 75 embossed facsimiles of 19th-century cutouts for use in the 10 projects outlined, fails to deliver on the promise of its packaging. The paper cutouts and scraps are ample and pleasantly traditional, but the book, which contains brief histories of Victorian customs and rituals, quotations from literature and seasonal recipes, falters in its craft instructions for the projects, which cover traditional decoupage, faux-plaid painting and simple gilding of gift items ranging from cookie tins and holiday candles to candy boxes, table centerpieces and wassail bowls for New Year's Eve. Brief historical perspectives are somewhat slight; pictures of finished crafts are crowded and less than helpful, and some of the instructional illustrations are superfluous.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556704216
• ISBN-13: 978-1556704215
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,522,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You Will Think It's Christmas 1900, June 6, 2001

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This review is from: Victorian Christmas: Source Book With 10 Projects : 75 Victorian Scraps Plus Four Christmas Cards (Hardcover)

This double book has it all-instructions and the materials to make projects. The very beautiful book has several Victorian projects to make using the Christmas "scraps" which are included in the second half of the book. The projects are somewhat disappointing, however, the reproduction paper pictures called "scraps" make up for the lack in originality of the projects. The rather lackluster projects were the springboard for my own ideas with which to use the paper "scraps" of Father Christmas, Victorian angels, flowers, etc. Overall, the paper pictures were the stronger of the two halves of the book, but well made up for any weakness in the project suggestions. Gorgeous pictures. Well worth the money.