A pagan tree skirt is a decorative covering that is placed around the base of a Christmas tree to add an extra touch of beauty and mystery to the holiday display. Unlike traditional tree skirts that may feature images of Santa Claus or snowflakes, a pagan tree skirt often incorporates symbols and designs that are associated with ancient pagan traditions. Paganism is a term that refers to a wide range of spiritual beliefs and practices that predate major world religions such as Christianity and Judaism. Many of these beliefs and practices revolve around the worship of nature and the cycles of the seasons. For this reason, pagan tree skirts often feature motifs inspired by nature, including leaves, trees, animals, and celestial objects like the sun and moon. In addition to nature-inspired designs, pagan tree skirts may also incorporate symbols that are associated with specific pagan traditions or deities.

Dana Skirt

Dana Wrap Skirt - Brown Cotton Skirt with Celtic Embroidery along the trim.

Tighten to fit with two adjustable sizes at the buckle along the waist. This skirt opens into one flat piece. You can then wrap the skirt tying the hidden inside cord to secure followed by the buckles on the other side at the front of the skirt.

This is a very easy to wear item. In winter, it goes great with tights or leggings and in summer it is perfect by itself. Odi Belt pictured with the skirt is a separate item and is available on our online stores.

Celtic knotwork is always cyclical and never-ending. In this way, we have chosen to use Celtic knotwork in our designs as a symbol for the endurance of the ancient culture where they originated. Through our designs, we hope to help continue the ideas that Celtic culture symbolises. Using knotwork not only helps to keep that ancient form of art alive, but also continues the never-ending cycle of inspiration.

✔ Style for winter and summer

✔ Perfect for layering

✔ Pointed fabric finish

✔ Belt buckle with two sizing options

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Dana Skirt with Hawthorn bodice and Grace O’Malley Tunic

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The model is wearing size small.

This adjustable skirt comes in 4 sizes (Small - XL)

SMALL - UK 8 to 10

Waist - 33 inches/ 83.80 cm

Hips (flexible with the flow of the skirt) - 49 inches/ 124.50 cm

Length - 21 inches/ 53.35 cm

MEDIUM - UK 12

Waist - 36 inches/ 91.45 cm

Hips (flexible with the flow of the skirt) - 52 inches/ 132.10 cm

Length - 21 inches/ 53.35 cm

LARGE - UK 14

Waist - 38 inches/ 96.50 cm

Hips (flexible with the flow of the skirt) - 54 inches/ 137.15 cm

Length - 21.5 inches/ 54.60 cm

XL - UK 16

Waist - 40 inches/ 101.60 cm

Hips (flexible with the flow of the skirt) - 56 inches/ 142.25 cm

Length - 22 inches/ 55.90 cm

📌NOTE: Please check your measurements before selecting your size. Measurements given are specific to this garment. Ensure to choose a size that will give you space to breath. If you need some help in selecting the best size for you don't hesitate to ask.

~Fabric and Textiles~

We source all fabrics personally and seek the highest quality traditional style fabrics possible. We do our best source the most natural, hand spun and traditionally woven textiles. Care Instructions: Hand wash in cool water, wash separately and line dry.

🌳With every order you make from Celtic Fusion Design, a tree will be planted! From each order, 4€ (the price of planting one native tree species) will be donated to Hometree, an organisation that is striving to plant trees in the West of Ireland to restore natural woodlands and create healthy ecosystems to last generations. Find out more here: www.hometree.ie

This has been designed by the designer and founder of Celtic Fusion; Regina Tierney. Her inspiration comes from her home place in County Clare in the West of Ireland. Celtic Fusion was designed to create a connection to nature through unique clothing. The designs are inspired by Celtic spirituality and ancient paganism - beliefs centered around the natural world and the cycle of life. So, naturally, sustainability and ethics are a top priority in the construction of the clothing you purchase. We hope to create a new standard for the impact of fashion with our choice of fabrics, construction processes, and positive work practices.

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Pagan tree skirt

Ok this looks fabulous. I started to do the same and then quickly realized I was not going to do a tree this year because I am clearly lazy and a pagan. Truth.

Love how adorable and simple this is, Cassie! I think there's a time for gluing and a time for sewing. Good call here 🙂

I'm a sewer myself, but have been known to bust out the glue gun from time to time if I think there is just no way I want to take the time to sew! I think you'll be much happier with a better known brand sewing machine – I've been sewing for many years and the only brands I trust for basic things like this would be Brother and Singer – an offbrand like IKEA is probably just asking for it. Hope you find success in a different machine! I have a feeling it will sort out some of your difficulties. P.S. – I love coming to your blog to comment on posts (I often just read them through Google reader) but everytime I come to your blog my computer slows -way- the heck down starts acting all wonky – and then I hear talking coming out of the speakers (freaky!) – I am not sure if I'm the only person who has a computer that doesn't like it but I think the DIY video that starts by itself when you load the page is causing the slow-down. Anyway you could turn it so it doesn't automatically play? Sorry to bother! Just thought I'd point it out.

I enjoy sewing straight lines:) But I am so far behind this year so it will be fabric glue for me! BTW, you should have better luck with your new Brother sewing machine;)

I like your tree skirt! Very cute! What I'm really loving though is your gift wrapping. Your bows are so much better than my store-bought stick-ons 😛

So cute! And I giggled at the site of the paint cans under the tree. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do to get some height for her tree!

Love this idea! Totally genius. I will find any excuse to use pre hemmed items. Tablecloth curtains = true story 🙂

Lol at your paint cans…only because I so need to steal the idea! My kids are taller than our tree this year. So sad! We went to cut it down and b/c of the drought there were only tiny trees available, well, the affordable ones anyway. Love your pom poms!

SO so smart to use the table cloth and then to trace a plate to cute the circle. Wowzer. I never would have that of that. If your new machine causes you any grief I totally did not recommend it. If you love it, it was all me.

Hi Cassie: Thanks so much for this post. Your tree skirt is truly adorable. I love it. I love the deep pink and white combo. I will definitely do this next year. Anna

This is so cute but I think more than anything I love the paint cans. Great idea!! I try to be a sewer…

this is really cute and looks much easier than the one I am in the middle of trying to make! I committed to one of those no sew canvas ruffle ones on pinterest and goodness it is taking forever! I should have gone this route

Lovin this and this is the kind of method that is right up my alley! 🙂 especially considering the only thing i've sew is a button. Definite gluer here.

I love this. It's easy so I'm all for it! I've always struggled with the tree skirt. It's so hard to find one I like. I hope you like your Brother sewing machine. I love mine. Very easy to use. Not that I'm even close to mastering sewing, but it's not the machine….

Love the pom-pom! Great idea! And don't give up on sewing…you'll love it once you get the basics down!

Love the pom poms girl! I am usually a sewer, however I just added some pom pom trim with Stitch Witchery to my niece's drapes in her room! It is so easy! You literally just cut the amount you want and place it behind the trim, then iron. It holds great! I have used this to hold a quick hem on pants and skirts! You MUST get some if you are a crazy crafter!

I cracked up when I saw you using paint cans – I just helped a client with Christmas decor and she was shocked when I needed to raid her pantry to use soup cans and etc help stack and layer things.
And I love pom poms – if I don't have to drag out the sewing machine I will take the easy way. Stitch witchery is my friend for sure!!
Merry Merry!!

Perfect! This is the most darling tree skirt I've seen this year. The pom-pom fringe makes it. By the way, that pumpkin cake looks like a must try!

The History of Christmas Trees

Evergreen trees (and other evergreen plants) have traditionally been used to celebrate winter festivals (pre-Christian/pagan and Christian) for thousands of years. Pre-Christian/Pagans used branches of evergreen trees to decorate their homes during the winter solstice, as it made them think of the spring to come. The Romans used Fir Trees to decorate their temples at the festival of Saturnalia. However, they were quite different to what we now think of as Christmas Trees.

Nobody is really sure when Fir trees were first used as Christmas trees. It probably began about 1000 years ago in Northern Europe.

Christmas Trees might well have started out as 'Paradise Trees' (branches or wooden frames decorated with apples). These were used in medieval German Mystery or Miracle Plays that were acted out in front of Churches during Advent and on Christmas Eve. In early church calendars of saints, 24th December was Adam and Eve's day. The Paradise Tree represented the Garden of Eden. It was often paraded around the town before the play started, as a way of advertising the play. The plays told Bible stories to people who could not read.

Christmas Trees as they came to be now started around the late 1400s into the 1500s. In what's now Germany (was the Holy Roman Empire then), the Paradise Tree had more decorations on it (sometimes communion wafers, cherries and later pastry decorations of stars, bells, angels, etc. were added) and it even got a new nickname the 'Christbaum' or 'Christ Tree'.

Some early Christmas Trees, across many parts of northern Europe, were cherry or hawthorn plants (or a branch of the plant) that were put into pots and brought inside so they would hopefully flower at Christmas time. If you couldn't afford a real plant, people made pyramids of woods and they were decorated to look like a tree with paper, apples and candles. It's possible that the wooden pyramid trees were meant to be like Paradise Trees. Sometimes they were carried around from house to house, rather than being displayed in a home.

Some trees (or at least small tops of them or branches of fir trees) were hung from the ceiling, mainly in some parts of Germany, some Slavic countries and parts of Poland. This might have been to save space or they just looked nice hanging from the rafters! (If you have lighting hooks on the ceiling, they would also be an obvious place to hang things from.)

In addition to nature-inspired designs, pagan tree skirts may also incorporate symbols that are associated with specific pagan traditions or deities. For example, tree skirts may feature images of Odin's ravens, which are sacred to the Norse god Odin. Other popular symbols include the pentacle, which is a five-pointed star, and the triquetra, which is a three-pointed symbol commonly associated with the Celtic tradition.

The First Recorded Christmas Trees

The first documented use of a tree at Christmas and New Year celebrations is argued between the cities of Tallinn in Estonia and Riga in Latvia! Both claim that they had the first trees; Tallinn in 1441 and Riga in 1510. Both trees were put up by the 'Brotherhood of Blackheads' which was an association of local unmarried merchants, ship owners, and foreigners in Livonia (what is now Estonia and Latvia).

Little is known about either tree apart from that they were put in the town square, were danced around by the Brotherhood of Blackheads and were then set on fire. This is like the custom of the Yule Log. The word used for the 'tree' could also mean a mast or pole, tree might have been like a 'Paradise Tree' or a tree-shaped wooden candelabra rather than a 'real' tree.

In the town square of Riga, the capital of Latvia, there is a plaque which is engraved with "The First New Year's Tree in Riga in 1510", in eight languages.

A picture from Germany in 1521 which shows a tree being paraded through the streets with a man riding a horse behind it. The man is dressed a bishop, possibly representing St. Nicholas.

Also in 1521, on December 21st, records in the town of Sélestat, in the Alsace region in north east France, show that 4 shillings were paid to a forest ranger to "watch over a tree from St Thomas". But this might not have been a 'Christmas Tree' as December 21st is also the feast day of St Thomas the Apostle. Also in the town of Turckheim in Alsace, from 1576 there's a record of a sculpture/decoration of a Christmas Tree on a keystone. In nearby Strasbourg, also in Alsace, a Christmas Tree was set-up in the Cathedral in 1539.

In 1584, the historian Balthasar Russow wrote about a tradition, in Riga, of a decorated fir tree in the market square where the young men “went with a flock of maidens and women, first sang and danced there and then set the tree aflame”. There's a record of a small tree in Breman, Germany from 1570. It is described as a tree decorated with "apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers". It was displayed in a 'guild-house' (the meeting place for a society of business men in the city).

The first person to bring a Christmas Tree into a house, in the way we know it today, may have been the 16th century German preacher Martin Luther. A story is told that, one night before Christmas, he was walking through the forest and looked up to see the stars shining through the tree branches. It was so beautiful, that he went home and told his children that it reminded him of Jesus, who left the stars of heaven to come to earth at Christmas. So he brought a tree into his house and decorated it with candles to represent the stars.

Some people say this is the same tree as the 'Riga' tree, but it isn't! The story about Martin Luther seems to date to about 1536 and Riga tree originally took place a couple of decades earlier.

The custom of having Christmas trees could well have travelled along the Baltic sea, from Latvia to Germany. In the 1400s and 1500s, the countries which are now Germany and Latvia were them part of two larger empires which were neighbors. Fir, or other evergreen trees like conifers, were common throughout northern Europe at this time, so that's why firs and conifers became the 'standard' Christmas Tree.

Another story says that St. Boniface of Crediton (a village in Devon, UK) left England in the 8th century and traveled to Germany to preach to the pre-Christian/pagan German tribes and convert them to Christianity. He is said to have come across a group of pre-Christian/pagans about to sacrifice a young boy while worshipping an oak tree in honour of Thor. In anger, and to stop the sacrifice, St. Boniface cut down the oak tree and, to his amazement, a young fir tree sprang up from the roots of the oak tree. St. Boniface took this as a sign of the Christian faith and his followers decorated the tree with candles so that St. Boniface could preach to the pre-Christian/pagans at night. St Boniface was certainly involved in spreading Christianity in parts of Germany, although the legends of the tree seems to have started several centuries later and they're not mentioned in the early writings about St Boniface.

Hanging Trees upside down has also been connected with St. Boniface. One story/theory says that he used the 'triangle' shape of an upside down fir tree to help explain the trinity in the Christian faith (God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit). Being upside down it that looked a bit like a cross and so also helped to explain the crucifixion.

There is another legend, from Germany, about how the Christmas Tree came into being, it goes:

Once on a cold Christmas Eve night, a forester and his family were in their cottage gathered round the fire to keep warm. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. When the forester opened the door, he found a poor little boy standing on the door step, lost and alone. The forester welcomed him into his house and the family fed and washed him and put him to bed in the youngest son's own bed (he had to share with his brother that night!). The next morning, Christmas Morning, the family were woken up by a choir of angels, and the poor little boy had turned into Jesus, the Christ Child. The Christ Child went into the front garden of the cottage and broke a branch off a Fir tree and gave it to the family as a present to say thank you for looking after him. So ever since them, people have remembered that night by bringing a Christmas Tree into their homes!

While pagan tree skirts are frequently used by those who follow pagan beliefs, they can also be appreciated by people from all walks of life who are drawn to the beauty and symbolism of these designs. The pagan tree skirt serves as a reminder of our connection to nature and the importance of honoring the natural world in our holiday celebrations. Overall, a pagan tree skirt is a unique and beautiful addition to any Christmas tree display. Whether you are a practicing pagan or simply appreciate the symbolism and aesthetic of pagan traditions, a pagan tree skirt can add a touch of enchantment and intrigue to your holiday decor..

Reviews for "Celebrating the Seasons with a Pagan Tree Skirt"

1. Sarah - 2/5 - I was really disappointed with the "Pagan tree skirt". It looked so beautiful in the pictures online, but in person, it was poorly made and looked cheap. The material was thin and the stitching was uneven. I expected better quality considering the price. Also, the design was not what I was expecting. The colors were much duller than they appeared in the photos. Overall, I would not recommend this tree skirt.

2. Mark - 1/5 - This "Pagan tree skirt" was a complete waste of money. The fabric was very flimsy and felt like it would tear easily. The design also looked faded and washed out, nothing like the vibrant look shown in the pictures. I ended up returning it because it was just not worth the price at all. I would suggest looking elsewhere for a better quality tree skirt.

3. Katherine - 2/5 - I was unimpressed with the "Pagan tree skirt". It was not as festive as I had hoped and looked quite plain on my Christmas tree. The material was also quite thin and did not lay nicely around the base of the tree. It lacked the fullness and volume I was expecting. Overall, I would not recommend this tree skirt if you're looking for something to make your tree stand out during the holiday season.

4. James - 3/5 - The "Pagan tree skirt" was just okay. It looked decent on my tree, but it didn't wow me like I hoped it would. The material was average quality and the design was nothing special. It did the job, but I think there are better tree skirts out there for the same price or even cheaper. I wouldn't purchase it again, but if you're not too picky, it could work for you.

The Evolution of Pagan Tree Skirt Designs Over Time