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This pioneer work presents the rich and diverse decorative arts produced
by the distinctive Mennonite communities in Europe, Pennsylvania, and
Canada over a 300-year period. In his scholarly text, Clarke Hess
identifies a host of newly recognized Mennonite artisans of traditional
textiles and quilts, furniture, clocks, wooden boxes and carvings,
metals, pottery, and fraktur. Derived from private collections
throughout the United States and Canada, these colorful folk items of
Mennonite families are all carefully identified and displayed in
hundreds of color images. Designers, folk art collectors, dealers, and
historians will covet this beautiful and fascinating book.
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