Magic lanterns : creative projects for making and decorating lanterns for indoors and out

Shows how to bring ambience to your home and garden.

In the home, lanterns can be used to create ambient lighting for special occasions, Halloween or Christmas.

Outdoor lanterns look enchanting hung form a tree, lining a pathway or floating on a pond for a magical garden party.

Mary Maguire has chosen projects that make ideal gifts or decorations for the home and garden, or to take outdoors for a procession or party.

The range of lanterns varies widely from the simple painted jam-jar suspended on a string, bent willow structures covered in painted tissue paper to huge illuminated bamboo, wire and fabric carnival floats.