Seasonal Decorations

Spiced Orange Soap Bar

Our Spiced Orange Soap Bar is that elegant but practical gift you've been searching for! Stock up for hostesses, teachers, and more. This fine, all-natural soap is inspired by the holiday sights and scents of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. The...

George Wythe House Christmas Cards

Send Christmas greetings with a charming image of one of the Historic Area's most handsome colonial homes. The fanciful artwork depicts the George Wythe House during a winter snowfall with a well-appointed stagecoach riding past. It's a charming scene...

Winter Pine Soap Bar

Our Winter Pine Soap Bar is that elegant but practical gift you've been searching for! Stock up for hostesses, teachers, and more. This fine, all-natural soap is inspired by the holiday sights and scents of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. The...

Festive Pineapple Soap Bar

Our Festive Pineapple Soap Bar is that elegant but practical gift you've been searching for! Stock up for hostesses, teachers, and more. This fine, all-natural soap is inspired by the holiday sights and scents of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area...

Plum Pudding Soap Bar

Our Plum Pudding Soap Bar is that elegant but practical gift you've been searching for! Stock up for hostesses, teachers, and more. This fine, all-natural soap is inspired by the holiday sights and scents of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. The...

Governor's Party Christmas Cards

'Tis the season for holiday parties and the Governor's Palace hosted the most prestigious gathering in town. This set of 16 full-color, folded cards and envelopes features a Christmas Eve gathering on a snowy evening. At the time of its completion in...

Porch Gathering Christmas Cards

Each year during the holiday season, Williamsburg comes alive with blazing cressets, candle-lit windows, and most coveted of all, amazing fruit-and-foliage displays. Families from around the country, and even the world, flock to the Historic Area to...

"Let It Snow" Square Soap Bar

With a cocked hat and an adorable smile, this charming colonial snowman graces the label of our evergreen forest-scented  "Let it Snow" Square Soap Bar. Our exclusive vegetable soap is triple-milled and enriched with shea butter and cocoa...

Peppermint Soap Bar Wrapped in Red Toile

Lather up this winter with one of the most popular scents of the holidays! Our Peppermint Soap Bar Wrapped in Red Toile paper, made exclusively for Colonial Williamsburg, will leave your hands feeling soft and smelling sweet. Soap made from olive oil was...

Indienne Rug Coaster Set

Spread a little tradition wherever you want to relax, enjoy a drink ... and protect your table. With a detailed medallion and floral motif, these coaster rugs will add a touch of rich elegance to any room or party. This pattern was inspired by rugs in...

Peppermint Red Toile Pump Top Soap

Colonial Williamsburg Peppermint Liquid Soap captures the fresh and crisp scent of peppermint in a hand soap to enjoy all season long. Luxuriously enriched with shea and cocoa butters, this pump hand soap is beautifully decorated with a label featuring...

Peppermint Red Toile Pump Top Lotion

Colonial Williamsburg Peppermint Lotion captures the fresh and crisp scent of peppermint in a hand lotion to enjoy all season long. Luxuriously enriched with shea and cocoa butters, this pump hand lotion is beautifully decorated with a label featuring...

Pineapple Chamberstick

Once upon a time, chambersticks guided guests to their sleeping quarters (18th-century flashlights, if you will). Now they usually serve a more decorative purpose, like this Pineapple Chamberstick, a wonderful addition to your guest room or holiday decor...

Imperial Blue Porcelain Dinnerware 5-Piece Place Setting

Treat your guests like royalty with this 18th-century-inspired Imperial Blue Porcelain Dinnerware 5-Piece Place Setting. Since the Ming Dynasty, imperial blue and white porcelains have been prized by collectors and connoisseurs around the world. Edged in...

Imperial Blue Porcelain Dinner Plate

Treat your guests like royalty with this 18th-century inspired porcelain dinner plate. Since the Ming Dynasty, imperial blue and white porcelains have been prized by collectors and connoisseurs around the world. Edged in 22k gold, this underglaze blue...

Imperial Blue Cup and Saucer

Treat your guests like royalty with this 18th-century-inspired Imperial Blue Cup and Saucer. Since the Ming Dynasty, imperial blue and white porcelains have been prized by collectors and connoisseurs around the world. Edged in 22k gold, this underglaze...

Lady Dunmore Fabric Ornament

This handmade fabric ornament of Lady Dunmore will add whimsy and history to the holiday season. Features White and gold  Handmade 6"H WILLIAMSBURG exclusive! Product Care Spot clean. Inspiration Lady Dunmore appears to have thoroughly...

Maroon Randolph Carriage Fabric Ornament

Decorate the tree with an elegant fabric rendition of an 18th-century carriage, one of the Historic Area's most charming attributes. Visitors can enjoy horse-drawn carriage rides through the quaint streets of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area in...

Gold Governor's Palace Fabric Ornament

Decorate the tree with a shimmering fabric rendition of the Governor's Palace, one of the Historic Area's most famous buildings. This fabric ornament is handmade using Zaridosi embroidery, a term that translates to "sewing with gold." A traditional South...

Entertaining Ideas from Williamsburg

Virginia, of course, is famous for its hospitality. Drawing on that tradition, here's a treasure trove of ideas for celebrating special occasions throughout the year. From a winter anniversary to a spring wedding, a Fourth of July picnic to a children's...

Jaw Harp

Played since the Middle Ages, this form of mouth harp was especially popular in Scotland, where dancers stepped a jig to its lively, twanging note. The harp is capable of producing only a single note, but players can vary the instrument's tone by...

Colonial Williamsburg Tree Lighting Gold Washed Brass Ornament

Bring home a sparkling celebration of Williamsburg's annual Christmas tree-lighting tradition with this exclusive Colonial Williamsburg Christmas Tree Ornament. This handsome 3-dimensional collectible ornament is crafted of solid brass with an 18K gold...

Bayberry Room Spray

Get a quick burst of refreshing fragrance with our bayberry room spray. Bayberry candles were among the most prized candles in 18th-century America because of their clear, more consistent light and pleasant scent. One of the first written accounts of...

Lord Dunmore Coach Gold Washed Brass Ornament

Evocative of the horse-drawn conveyances that transported the royal governors of Virginia, this handsome 3-dimensional coach ornament is crafted of solid brass with a 18K gold wash finish. Expensive and elegant, an 18th-century town coach bespoke money,...

Ivory and Nickel Chamber Stick Lighted Window Candle

With an elegant brushed nickel finish handle making it easy to move from place to place, this battery-powered Ivory and Nickel Chamber Stick Lighted Window Candle hearkens back to holiday seasons of the past. Light one in each window of your home...

Ivory and Black Chamber Stick Lighted Window Candle

With an elegant black-finish handle making it easy to move from place to place, this battery-powered Ivory and Black Chamber Stick Lighted Window Candle hearkens back to holiday seasons of the past. Light one in each window of your home throughout the...

Ivory and Bronze Chamber Stick Lighted Window Candle

With an elegant bronze-finish handle making it easy to move from place to place, this battery-powered Ivory and Bronze Chamber Stick Lighted Window Candle hearkens back to holiday seasons of the past. Light one in each window of your home throughout the...

Ivory and Brass Chamber Stick Lighted Window Candle

With an elegant brass-finish handle making it easy to move from place to place, this battery-powered Ivory and Brass Chamber Stick Lighted Window Candle hearkens back to holiday seasons of the past. Light one in each window of your home throughout the...

The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

Illustrated in the style of the period, each softbound booklet in this series describes a trade of eighteenth-century Williamsburg and the lives and times of the artisans who practiced it. Features An Account of the Life, Times, & Craft of a...

3-D Raleigh Tavern Lantern Ornament

The romance of candlelight—captured in a miniature version to hang on your tree. This solid brass 3-dimentional ornament with 18k gold flash was inspired by a lantern in the front hall of the Raleigh Tavern, where patriots gathered to discuss the...

Colonial Williamsburg Decorates for Christmas

The beauty of a Williamsburg Christmas can be yours every year with this how-to book. Directions for making 42 gorgeous decorations, including 249 step-by-step drawings and 35 color illustrations, will help you create the perfect holiday atmosphere in...

Bilbo Catcher

Ball and cup toys had already been favorite children's toys for many centuries by the time of the settlements in the North American colonies, and they have remained popular throughout American history. In the more difficult Bilbo Catcher variation from...

Columbine Native Flower Seeds

This beautiful woodland wildflower has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes. These tubes, or spurs, contain nectar that attracts long-tongued insects and hummingbirds especially adapted for reaching the...

Plants of Colonial Williamsburg

This guide to the plants in Colonial Williamsburg's gardens describes and discusses two hundred flowers, trees, herbs, and shrubs. The historical background of each plant links it with the colonial period. Brief biographies of early plantsmen explain the...

Black-Eyed Susan Flower Seeds

Indigenous to many parts of the United States, black eyed susans were introduced into Europe soon after Columbus visited America. The plant was named by Linnaeus in 1753 who gave them the Latin name Rudbeckia hirta after his mentor Olaf Rudbeck and hirta...

Townscape Brass Ornament

A sparkling representation of seven of the most important buildings in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area are delicately cut in solid brass with an 18k gold flash finish. This custom-designed, 3-dimentional ornament features the following Historic...

Four O'Clock Flower Seeds

Create a Williamsburg-inspired garden with this packet of heirloom Four O'Clock Flower Seeds. Four O'clock flowers are well known for their bright, trumpet-shaped flowers and strong, pleasant fragrance. Found in tropical areas of North and South...

Purple Echinacea Coneflower Flower Seeds

Echinacea, also known as purple coneflower or Sampson root, is a true American native and one of the hardiest perennials available. The plant was used medicinally by the Native Americans of the Great Plains more than any other herb. It was the Native...

Butterfly Weed Flower Seeds

Butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, is an extremely hardy and long lived perennial that is native to North America, east of the Mississippi. The family name, Asclepias, comes from the Greco-Roman god, Asclepius, a son of Apollo, who was beloved for...

Nasturtium Flower Seeds

Nasturtiums, also known as Indian cress or flame flower, are annuals, native to Columbia, Bolivia, and Peru where they grow as perennials. They were discovered by the Spanish conquistadors and brought to Spain in the 16th century. The first nasturtiums...

Forget-Me-Not Flower Seeds

Forget-me-not, also known as scorpion grass and a member of the borage family, is a temperate climate perennial plant, which was originally native to Europe, Asia, and North America. The common name, forget-me-not, comes from a German legend about a...

Spotted Bird Waterpipe Whistle

Also known as a "water pipe" or "water warble," these bird whistles are a classic novelty. Bird whistles were popular with 18th-century children and adults. To use, simply fill the whistle with water and then blow gently through it.For best results,...

Common Sunflower Flower Seeds

Sunflowers should be our national flower, but alas, that honor goes to the rose. The sunflower is native to the Southeastern United States, but eons ago it made its way to South America where it became an important staple crop of the Incans who grew the...

Tomato Costuluto Genoves Vegetable Seeds

One of the most interesting heirloom tomatoes, Costuluto Genoves is a rich red with deep ribbing. Of all the vegetables grown in America, none is more universally loved than the tomato, and yet, for many decades, this delightful fruit was shunned by...

Flowers and Herbs of Early America

Rediscover American botanical heritage with this chronicle of the history and cultivation of 56 species of flowers and herbs grown in early America. Researched and written by master gardener Lawrence Griffith, curator of plants for The Colonial...

Apple-Pineapple Wreath Ornament

Honor the Historic Area's famous annual holiday decorations with this sparkling Christmas ornament. Finished in 24k gold with bright enamel accents, this beautiful wreath includes all the classic elements of Christmas in Williamsburg— apples,...

Governor's Palace Blown Glass Ornament

This whimsical replica of the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg features a snow-covered ground, evergreen trees, wreath-covered windows and a sparkling roof. In front is a golden horse-drawn carriage and fifer on one side, and a drummer on the...

American Spirit Kitchen Towel Set

As welcoming to hands as to guests, this 100% flat-weave American Spirit kitchen towel set is a must-have for any kitchen. Produced exclusively for Colonial Williamsburg, these towels make a wonderful gift or hostess item. Features 2-piece towel...