Gothic Ornaments

🦇 A tree that reflects what you actually practise rather than what the shops sell in November. Gothic Christmas ornaments come mostly in ceramic, with a smaller run of glass.

Designs run to skulls and bats perched on spell books, dark ravens, spooky witches, skull cats, rainbow ruff cats on banners, and jack-o-lanterns lined up along a hat brim. The palette stays black, gold and deep green, so a tree hung with these reads as deliberate rather than as Halloween decorations left up too long.

A handful are shaped rather than round, cut to the silhouette of a cat or a bat, and those hang best on an outer branch where the outline shows. Ceramic holds weight and needs a branch that can take it; glass is lighter and belongs near strung lights, where it catches them. Every piece arrives fitted for hanging.

🌙 The pagan range in Yule ornaments, the lighter witchy end in witchy ornaments, one familiar in black cat ornaments, and the birds in raven and crow. · Christmas Stockings