Creating Your Vintage Hallowe'en: The Folklore, Traditions, and Some Crafty Makes

By JoAnne Diodato

Full of spooky artworks, ephemera, vintage-inspired makes, rhymes, and stories, Creating Your Vintage Hallowe'en celebrates the folklore and traditions surrounding this delightfully unique holiday. Read how folk used to celebrate with dressing up, fortune-telling games, parties, and plenty of pleasurable spookiness, then recreate your own vintage Hallowe'en with old-fashioned projects, including a carved Jack o' lantern, a witch costume, and fun decorations for your home. This book is packed full of little-known facts about the origins of Hallowe'en customs such as bobbing for apples and carving faces into pumpkins, while the charming makes and vintage artworks featuring red-cloaked witches, sleekly silhouetted black cats, cute kittens, cheery goblins, and smiling specters will inspire you to have your own vintage-style Hallowe'en celebration. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782491430
• ISBN13: 9781782491439
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cico
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 7.4"