Tartan of the Day
HALLOWE'EN IN TARTAN!
Spooky Weaves for the Season!
Enjoy the vintage seasonal postcards, specialty tartan collection and a bit of mood music!
Mood Music?
Enjoy this special selection of tartans!
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TARTANS FOR the SEASON OF Samhain!
The word Halloween or Hallowe'en dates to about 1745 and is of Christian origin FROM "hallowed evening" or "holy evening." Modern usage comes from THE Scottish term for All Hallows' Eve (the evening before All Hallows' Day) in which the word "eve" is contracted to e'en or een.
Some historical researchers speculate that the modern "trick-or-treat" ritual stems from the Scottish practice of guising, itself a secular version of "souling." In the Middle Ages, soulers, children and poor adults, would go to local homes and collect food or money in return for prayers said for the dead on All Souls’ Day.
Guisers discarded the prayers in favor of less religious performances like jokes, songs, or other “tricks.”
Happy Hallowe'en!
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Royal Pumpkin Spice
Pumpkin Spice Season
Oct 3
Tartan design by Deborah Savage
Sunset
Pumpkin Festival Days
Oct 20
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Nuts and Bolts
Nutting Parties & Nutcrack Night
Oct 22
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Green Flash
Ghosts & Phantoms Night
Oct 23
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Dark Grey Wolf
Werewolf Night
Oct 24
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin Day
Oct 26
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Black Cat
Black Cat Night
Oct 27
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Black Magic
Witches' Night Out
Oct 28
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Witches' Blood
Witches' Night Out
Oct 28
Tartan design by Jonathan Brown
Little Brown Bat
Dracula Bites Night
Oct 29
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Vampire
Dracula Bites Night
Oct 29
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Hot Devil
Mischief Night
Oct 30
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Halloween
Hallowe'en
Oct 31
Tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin
Pumpkin & Spices
Pumpkin Spice Season
Oct 3
The American craze for all things pumpkin spice is a relatively new one, but the arrival of the Pumpkin Spice Latté in Starbucks Coffee Houses is fondly awaited by many as a tasty harbinger of the autumnal holiday season
Pumpkin Patch at Sunset
Pumpkin Festival Days
Oct 20
Famous literary pumpkins include: Cinderella's pumpkin carriage; the Headless Horseman's pumpkin of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Jack Pumpkinhead of The Marvelous Land of Oz; and Feathertop, Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic tale of a bewitched scarecrow with a pumpkin head!
Party Mix
Nutting Parties & Nutcrack Night
Oct 22
Traditional Hallowe'en party games include romantic fortune-telling using nuts placed on a fire grate.
More modern traditions include Hallowe'en party mix using a classic combination of nuts, cereal squares, and Hallowe'en candy!
Green Flash
Ghosts & Phantoms Night
Oct 23
Green flashes and green rays are rare optical phenomena that occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise, usually observed from a low altitude where there is an unobstructed view of the horizon, such as on the ocean.
Wolf or Werewolf?
Werewolf Night
Oct 24
The magical ability to assume the form and characteristics of a wolf is known as lycanthropism, or lycanthropy. There was no widespread belief in werewolves in medieval Europe before the 14th century, though the concept of animal shape-shifting goes back much further.
Jack-o'-lanterns
Pumpkin Day
Oct 26
Burning candles within turnips, rutabagas (swedes), or even beets are traditional ways of deterring evil spirits on Hallowe'en. In the Americas, pumpkins became the jack-o'-lantern of choice!
Black Cat
Black Cat Night
Oct 27
The folklore surrounding black cats varies from culture to culture, with black cats being reckoned either as harbingers of good fortune or conversely, of bad tidings.
That Old Black Magic!
Witches' Night Out
Oct 28
Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred allowing spirits to roam freely.
Weird Sisters
Witches' Night Out
Oct 28
The Three Witches or Weird Sisters are characters in William Shakespeare's Scottish play Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). They prophesy both his ascent to king and subsequent downfall. The darkly contradictory witches, their "filthy" trappings and supernatural activities, all set the ominous tone for the play.
Bat under a full moon
Dracula Bites Night
Oct 29
Bats have long been associated with the mysterious and the supernatural even before Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) which added the idea that a vampire could shape shift into the form of a bat! In his pursuit and seduction of Lucy, Count Dracula frequently disguises himself in the form of a large bat which flaps at her window.
Dracula & Vampires
Dracula Bites Night
Oct 29
The charismatic vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the highly successful publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori. However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula which provides the basis of the modern vampire legend and the gaunt, pale undead figure recognized today.
Simplicissimus Illustrierte Wochensc
Mischief Night
Oct 30
Mischief Night, also sometimes known as Devil's Eve is an informal holiday in which historically, children and teens engage in minor devilment and pranks such as ringing false alarms, ringing doorbells and leaving before someone answers, stealing gates, setting fires, and breaking windows!
Jack o'lanterns
Hallowe'en
Oct 31
Ghosts and goblins, jack-o-lanterns and witches, trick-or-treating, and spooky nights - Happy Hallowe'en!