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Amish: Amish Quilts
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These Amish Quilts are a wonderful family keepsake style, they use many colors and add real life to your home. They are especially great for your child's bedroom or for your guest room. These Amish Quilts are the real traditional patterns and designs that have been handed down for generations.
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As Amish quilts have evolved, their evolution has depended largely on those who live in the Amish communities. Basically, a community consensus has had to be reached in many instances when deciding if certain colors – like pink and white – are acceptable to use.
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Remember, true Amish and Mennonite quilts have the finest applique and quilting handwork. For your heirloom quilt, do not accept imports or machine quilted imitations as an equal to these exquisite pieces of art.
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Amish quilts, meticulously stitched by groups of Amish girls and women, are popular with tourists and highly praised by collectors. The quilting bees are a form of socialization and relaxation for Amish women, and the group effort reflects the Amish virtues of community and cooperation. The quilts can be intricate in design with colourful patterns but may not contain representational images, which are considered fancy and prideful. The selling of quilts, handmade crafts such as hex signs, and their famous baked goods such as friendship bread and shoofly pie is a common source of income for Amish families. The Amish recipes of Elizabeth Coblenz (died 2002) were syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, and her cookbooks are internationally famous.
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These Amish Quilts are set apart from all others by their topical designs. Each was originally pieced by many women (to be made into one bedquilt for a wedding gift for a community member). These are a special way for an experienced patchwork quilt artist to display a larger variety of color blends and patterns. These samplers fill the room with a real feeling of history and purpose. These Amish Quilts show a art that you can never grow tired of seeing!
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Amish are quite noted for their beards. The reason for their growing of lengthy facial hair is that they lack materials for making their quilts. When the beards come to a certain length, they have what you call "Beard-Harvesting season". This season comes in winter when beard growth is at its peak. They then gather at the town barn to have mass-plucking of beards. The collected facial hair is then placed on the Amish looms and made into quilts. The Amish ... need their beards to stay warm at night.
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