Wassail Pillows

Description: In the folklore of nightlife and revelry, no creature shines brighter than the Wassail. These gluttonous beings thrive on excess. They populate the grandest nights of our lives - if only we could remember them. As we survey the aftermath of a big night out and find only empty bottles and remnants of devoured and struggle to comprehend how the night spiraled into chaos we often remember glimpses of the Wassail and easily dismiss them as 'pink elephants'.

Description: Celebrate the holiday season in Woodstock Vermont with this design featuring a snow-covered covered bridge, horse-drawn sleigh, and 19th-century sleigh bells. Winter festivities, seasonal celebrations, and anyone who loves traditional holiday charm. This item suits any casual occasion.

Description: Wassail Christmas Merry

Description: Celebrate the heritage and maritime history of Halifax, Nova Scotia with this intricate design featuring a nostalgic evergreen pine, vintage ships, a compass rose. Highlighting the year 1917 along with evocative phrases like maritime wassail and atlantic harbour mist, this artwork captures the rich coastal spirit of eastern Canada.

Description: Mannheim Steamroller Wassail, Wassail

Description: Celebrate the unique traditions of Cardiff Wales with this captivating Mari Lwyd design. Featuring the eerie rhyming horse skull adorned with festive holly and ribbons alongside a warm wassail bowl, this artistic tribute captures the spirit the historic midwinter folk custom.

Description: Charles Mackintosh, 1868 - 1928, Scottish architect, designer and artist, husband to Margaret Macdonald. Both famous Art Nouveau, Symbolist artists from the last century. Featured here, 'The Wassail' is an image of the original gesso wall frieze made for a ladies tearoom. Gesso was applied over stretched hessian giving it a textured look with earthy colours. His wife, Margaret was commissioned at the same time to do a very similar panel which was also hung in the tearoom labelled, 'The May Queen'.

Description: The Mari Lwyd (Welsh: Y Fari Lwyd) is a wassailing folk custom found in South Wales. The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobby horse which is made from a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth.

Description: Waes Hael is an ancient Old English phrase meaning "be in good health" or "good fortune," often used as a toast or blessing. Rooted in Anglo-Saxon traditions, it embodies themes of community, well-being and celebration. The term is historically associated with the custom of wassailing, where people shared spiced cider or ale during festive gatherings, particularly in midwinter.