The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116651   Message #2507089
Posted By: ClaireBear
03-Dec-08 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: Sugar Wassail
Subject: RE: Sugar Wassail
There's a kissing ball tradition. I think it's traditionally two hoops at right angles to each other (think an embroidery hoop with the inner hoop stuck through the outer at right angles instead of straight), decorated with ribbons, evergreen, and holly and with a clump of mistletoe suspended at the bottom. Or maybe it could be all mistletoe.

There are many online, umm, purchasing opportunites (and craft instructions, in fairness) for kissing balls consisting of a styrofoam ball stuck through with greenery and such, but I can't find any pictures of what I think of as the "traditional" kind. I'll keep looking...watch this space.

C