VISITORS to a Lake District attraction this December can enjoy a Victorian Christmas.

Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House near Windermere, offers a unique and inspiring festive experience.

Throughout autumn, Blackwell has featured an immensely popular and diverse exhibition highlighting the skills of the female artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.

With less than a month to go of this thought-provoking exhibition, Blackwell has been decorated to complement the beauty and serenity of the house.

With a Christmas tree inspired by the famous Peacock Frieze in the Main Hall, it promises to be a festive experience like no other. There are Christmas events happening every day, including decoration embroidery workshops, curator-led Victorian Christmas talks, choir performances, children’s Christmas trails and more.

The Blackwell Tea Room also offers home-cooked Christmas lunches.

There are various Christmas inspired gifts available to purchase in the gift shop, and one-off, handcrafted items that can only be bought from Blackwell, including jewellery, textiles, handbags, and homeware.

The Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement exhibition offers a more tranquil experience, discovering beautiful objects with a remarkable history behind them.

The exhibition recognises women artists whose contributions have often been overlooked, or wrongly attributed in favour of a more prominent male family member.

With loans from public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museum of Scotland and The Hunterian, in Glasgow, the exhibition showcases a broad range of disciplines from ceramics, jewellery and embroidery to metalwork, bookbinding and illustration.

Artists featured include May Morris, Mary Watts and Margaret Macdonald, as well as Ann Macbeth, Georgie Gaskin, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Jessie Marion King, and many others.

Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House is open from Monday to Sunday, from 10.30am to 4pm, except for Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and from January 2 to 11.

For more information on Blackwell's Christmas programme, visit blackwell.org.uk