Decorative Arts of the Amish of Lancaster County

U.S.A.: Good Books, 1988 Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "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. [This book] examines the work of Amish artisans of 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." Dust jacket is very good.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/Fine.