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1. Amish -- Amish Quilts
   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.
2. Quilts
   Members of the Quilts of Valor Foundation hold up a quilt made for Sgt. Tony Maddox, an Iraq war veteran injured by an Improvised Explosive Device. The members received certificates of appreciation awarded by Indiana Adjutant General R. Martin Umbarger and Command Sgt. Maj. James Brown. They were recognized for their work on numerous quilts made for injured service members fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Photo by: Spc. William E. Henry, Indiana National Guard
3. Amish
   All aspects of Amish life are dictated by a list of written or oral rules, known as Ordnung, which outlines the basics of the Amish faith and helps to define what it means to be Amish. For an Amish person, the Ordnung may dictate almost every aspect of one's lifestyle, from dress and hair length to buggy style and farming techniques. The Ordnung varies from community to community and order to order, which explains why you will see some Amish riding in automobiles, while others don't even accept the use of battery-powered lights.
4. Amish -- No Amish
   In contrast to production-made hospitality furniture, Amish-made furniture is constructed of solid hardwoods. No particle board or laminates are used. All drawers feature English dovetail joints, steel ball-bearing drawer glides, and encapsulated drawer bottoms.
5. Amish -- Amish Country
   In modern days, Amish quilts look quite a bit different than those that were first created in the 1870s. With the country’s bicentennial in 1976, many Americans began to look back on the country’s past. As they did this, Amish-made quilts grew in popularity.
6. Amish -- Amish Communities
   At the turn of the twentieth century the Old Order Amish numbered about 5,000 in North America. Now scattered across 22 states and Ontario they number about 150,000 children and adults. Nearly three quarters live in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. Other sizeable communities are in Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, New York, and Wisconsin. A loose federation of some 900 congregations, the Amish function without a national organization or an annual convention. Local church districts—congregations of 25 to 35 families—shape the heart of Amish life.
7. Quilts -- Women
   The first quilts emerged in ancient Egypt, and the decorative art form traveled to Asia and later to Europe during the Crusades (c. 1100–1300). By 1300, quilting had spread to Italy, where women sewed bed quilts, and from there a long tradition of quilt making developed throughout Europe. Female European immigrants brought their quilting skills to the United States where the art form flourished during the colonial era. American women often created patchwork quilts made from scraps of fabric. Women ... participated in quilting bees in which they worked together in groups to sew quilts.
8. Amish -- Amish Mennonite
   The Amish church, a branch of the Mennonites, is a Protestant religious group descended from the 16th-century Anabaptists. The Amish take their name from Jacob Ammann, a Swiss Mennonite bishop who in 1693 broke away from the main body of Mennonites, feeling that they had strayed from the strict austerity of their forebears. Ammann's followers began emigrating to Pennsylvania from Switzerland and Germany about 1710, and by 1787 had established 70 congregations there. The Amish later spread to Ohio, Indiana, and Ontario in Canada. Today they still exist in all these areas (and others), numbering about 40,000.
9. Amish -- Buggies
   When you hear the word “Amish” certain images come to mind – horses and buggies, butter churning, and quilts. The truth is... that Amish quilts have not always been as big a part of Amish culture as you would expect.
10. Winesburg Ohio -- Town
    Winesburg is at the northeast edge of Holmes County, Ohio, the home of the world's largest settlement of Amish. In Holmes County you will find antique stores, craft malls, quilt shops, restaurants specializing in Amish-style cooking, bed and breakfasts, and a few art galleries. Being at the edge of the county means Winesburg is a part of the culture, but not a part of the crowd. Things can get pretty busy in the Berlin and Walnut Creek areas during the summer and fall tourist season, but Winesburg retains its small-town charm. Come see for yourself.

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