Mennonite Arts
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780764314148
Subjects: Antiques & Collectables; Decorative arts & crafts; Folk art; Art & Art Instruction; Antiques & Collectibles; Antiques/Collectibles; Art; Lancaster County; Folk & Outsider Art; Art, Mennonite; Pennsylvania
Notes: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Who Are the Mennonites?; title: Chapter 1:  European Origins; title: Chapter 2: To Pennsylvania: Immigration and Settlement; title: Chapter 3: Prosperity and Expansion; title: Chapter 4: The Bamberger Family: A Study in Material Culture; title: Chapter 5: Craftsmen in Wood: Cabinetmakers and Turners; title: Chapter 6: Boxes and Birds: The Painted Woodenware of the Mennonites; title: Chapter 7: Clockmakers; title: Chapter 8: Blacksmithing; title: Chapter 9: Redware Pottery; title: Chapter 10: Fraktur Artists; title: Chapter 11: Homespun Textiles; title: Chapter 12: Pieced Textiles: Quilts, Rugs, and Animals; title: Endnotes, Bibliography, Index