New home businesses have been added to the Amish map of Livingston County. The region is about a 45 minute drive from Rochester. The home businesses near Dansville are thriving with more visitors ...

Starting in the 1970s, design professionals deemed the simple patterns and strong colors of antique Amish quilts thoroughly “modern,” and those quilts frequently were showcased in homes right through ...

Unidentified Maker from the Lapp family, Smoketown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, “Lone Star / Star of Bethlehem” (c. 1935–45), cotton and wool, 81 x 82 inches (205.74 x 208.28 cm) (all photos Julie ...

Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quilts Laura Baptiste Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976, that ...

Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women looks beyond quilting as a utilitarian practice. It reveals historical quilting ...