Seasonal Decorations

Duel in the Wilderness

Major George Washington stared grimly at the French commander facing him. The young Virginian had traveled hundreds of miles into the frontier to deliver a message from the King of England. After a dangerous journey, Washington had arrived at his...

Castile Soap Bar

Here it is, the charmingly simple, wonderfully scented Castile Soap Bar that has charmed Colonial Williamsburg guests for decades. This "no frills" soap has a wonderful fresh scent and is made with vegan ingredients. Many of our guests love this soap for...

Tin Whistle

The tin whistle is a simple, traditional musical instrument; ideal for popular and folk music but it is also suitable for a much wider musical repertoire. It is just as good for solo playing as in ensemble with other musical instruments; and can be...

Bohea Colonial Loose Tea Canister

These fine teas, specially blended for Colonial Williamsburg, include varieties that delighted colonial tea enthusiasts. In 1768, colonists consumed more than a million pounds of tea. Their willingness to boycott tea in the 1770s is a testament to their...

Aesop's Fable Playing Cards

Our reproduction 18th Century Playing Cards feature Aesop's Fables on the backs. These made in USA playing cards are printed on uncoated heavy stock with an embossed tax stamp surrounding the package to replicate how they were originally sold. A...

Lavender and Sunflower Garden Sack Soap

Inspired by the gardens of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area, this lavender and sunflower soap leaves skin feeling soft and supple. The triple-milled, luxurious vegetable soap is enriched with botanical butters, oils and extracts in a fresh lavender...

Fresh Milk and Jasmine Garden Sack Soap

Inspired by Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area, this Fresh Milk and Jasmine Garden Sack Soap leaves skin feeling soft and supple. The triple-milled, luxurious vegetable soap is enriched with botanical butters, oils and extracts in a fresh garden scent...

Chamomile and Honey Garden Sack Bar Soap

Inspired by the 18th century gardens in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area, our Chamomile and Honey Garden Sack Soap leaves skin feeling soft and supple. The triple-milled, luxurious vegetable soap is enriched with botanical butters, oils and extracts...

Lavender Soap Bar

Here it is, the simple, wonderfully scented Lavender Soap that has charmed Colonial Williamsburg guests for decades. This vegan soap bar boasts the hand-cut look of soap bars from the 18th century and has a lovely soft color and a natural lavender scent...

Bayberry Soap Bar

Here it is, the charmingly simple, wonderfully scented Bayberry Soap that has charmed Colonial Williamsburg guests for decades. This colonial soap bar boasts the hand-cut look of soap bars from the 18th century and has a nature-inspired color and...

Holiday Apple Soap Bar

Our Holiday Apple 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...

Holiday Welcome Embossed Christmas Cards

The door of the Historic Area's Roscow Cole House is beautifully decorated on this set of Christmas cards. The Roscow Cole house has anchored the east end of Market Square since about 1812. It is named for the merchant who built it and owned it until...

Winterberry Soap Bar

Our Winterberry 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...

Bruton Parish Church Christmas Cards

A Christmas Eve stroll down Duke of Gloucester Street may find the Historic Area under a blanket of snow. Share the best of Williamsburg during the winter season with this beautiful set of boxed holiday cards. In the distance stands Bruton Parish Church...

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...

Colonial Williamsburg Scented Holiday Soap Set

Our Colonial Williamsburg Scented Holiday Soap Set is the elegant but practical gift you've been searching for! Stock up for hostesses, teachers, and more. These fine, all-natural soaps are inspired by the holiday sights and scents of Colonial...

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...

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...

Lemon Soap Bar

Here it is, the simple, wonderfully scented Lemon Soap that has charmed Colonial Williamsburg guests for decades. This vegan soap bar boasts the hand-cut look of soap bars from the 18th century, featuring a nature-inspired color and a fresh lemon scent...

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...

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...

Ghosts Amongst Us

Ghosts Amongst Us is a Colonial Williamsburg Publication based in part on Colonial Williamsburg's popular evening programs "Cry Witch" and "Ghosts Amongst Us" in the Historic Area. This ghost story book includes stories that have never been performed,...

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...

Battledore Pamphlet

Help children learn their ABCs and 123s - the 18th century way! This reproduction battledore is printed for the historic shops in Colonial Williamsburg. Contains reproduction illustrations to aid memory. Made in USA. A Williamsburg exclusive!

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...

Crabapple and Magnolia Pick - 12"

Add that perfect pop of color to your holiday décor with this Crabapple and Magnolia Pick. Enhance a wreath, centerpiece, mantel display, or even your holiday gift-wrapping with this decorative faux crabapple leaf pick. Measures 12"H. Made of faux...

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...

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...

Magnolia, Pinecone, & Fruit Wreath

A wreath is the first glimpse a guest gets of the style of your home. Make a great first impression with this Magnolia, Pinecone, & Fruit Wreath holiday wreath. Our exclusive Colonial Williamsburg wreath is made of pinecones and faux magnolia leaves,...

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...