Daniel and Kathryn McCauley
Decorative Arts of the Amish of Lancaster County
Intercourse 1988
Stron 160 format: 21x28cm, papier kredowy
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Amish decorative arts embody Amish culture. Quilts, samplers, rugs, dolls and doll quilts, clothing, graphic arts, furniture and other household objects—all show the values of the community that
produced them.
Decorative Arts of the Amish of Lancaster County examines the work of Amish artisans in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, during a particularly distinctive period, 1860—1940. Among Lancaster County's earliest settlers, the Amish came to colonial Pennsylvania from Germany, the Alsace and Switzerland in the early
1700s. Communities later developed in the Midwest and Canada. Although members of the group had been creating decorative art since the group's founding in Europe in 1693, it was not until the middle of the 19th century that they started to show an identifiable style of their own. The next ninety years brought a flourishing of Amish decorative culture. Unique patterns and uses of color appeared, and what is now recognized as an Amish look emerged in samplers, door towels, quilts, fraktur and
other forms of decorative art.
CONTENTS
9 The Amish and Their Decorative Culture
Who Are the Amish? Amish Decorative Arts
Roots of the Lancaster County Amish Church
27 Textiles
Samplers and Family Records Quilts and Crib Quilts Rugs
Dolls and Doll Quilts
Door Towels and Bolster Covers
Clothing and Sewing Notions
105 Graphics
Bookplates, Drawings and Family Registers
131 Furniture and Household Objects
Furniture
Other Household Objects
Boxes, Tins and Brushes
153 Biographies of Known Amish Artists
156 Endnotes
158 Bibliography
160 Index
160 About the Authors
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