September 30, 2005

A Look at Amish-Made Furniture and Amish Handcrafted Decor

Filed under: Handcrafted America, Amish Handcrafters — Karyn @ 11:23 pm

Amish-made furniture ranks as some of the highest-quality furniture you can acquire. Never originating from some factory assembly line, Amish-made furniture comes from the home-businesses of the Amish people, who take great pride in their handmade wood furniture. Not only creating furniture for the home, the Amish also excel in handcrafted outdoor furnishings, as well.

Each solid-wood furniture piece – whether indoor or outdoor – features meticulous design and craftsmanship. The Amish who produce these items many times come from generations of wood-crafting artisans. Beginning at an early age, future Amish woodworkers begin apprenticing beneath the watchful eyes of their elders. Because of these years of training, superior quality results. Remarkably fine Amish handcrafted décor results from the diligent efforts of these quality conscious artisans.

Handmade wood furniture made by the “Plain People” include items fine enough to grace the very best homes and gardens. Some handcrafted outdoor furnishings produced by the Amish include benches, swings, rockers, gliders, settees, and much more. Indoor solid-wood furniture includes bookshelves, chests, end tables, rocking chairs … the list goes on.

And when you think Amish handcrafted décor, you can’t overlook children’s furnishings. These talented craftspeople make child-sized furniture that any youngster would cherish. From rockers and table and chair sets to kid-fitting desks, benches, and more – all are smaller versions of larger, adult-sized pieces retaining the same painstaking craftsmanship. Solid-wood furniture made for children, just like the adult-sized handmade wood furniture, also comes individually created, piece-by-piece, from the industrious, careful hands of the Amish.

Amish-made furniture or any other Amish handcrafted décor often combines beauty with dual functionality. Rarely does one see a strictly-for-looks piece of Amish handiwork. Or a piece that just “sits there.” Many handcrafted outdoor furnishings feature not only gorgeous wood-grained beauty and an intrinsic functionality (like that of a chair), but include other attributes like being foldable or collapsible for winter storage.

Solid-wood furniture comes made by many, but the Amish seem to add just a little more. Never taking shortcuts, always thinking in terms of value-based products, these American craftsmen top the field in all types of handmade wood furniture. So whenever you’re thinking “quality with perks,” think Amish-made furniture. You’ll never go wrong.

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September 23, 2005

The Amish: A Way of Life

Filed under: Handcrafted America, Amish Handcrafters — Administrator @ 4:18 pm

You’ve read about it. Perhaps you’ve even caught glimpses of it in the cropped photos of a magazine or in the images of a movie. But nothing quite prepares you for the sublime serenity that envelopes your senses as you turn off the Interstate and make your way down the two-lane blacktop, bordered on both sides by lush, green pastureland and neat, orderly farms. Occasionally, in the distance, you may see a far-off figure in dark attire slapping the reins behind a hardworking mule, the rich, dark earth turning even darker behind them. And as you continue on amid the rolling, rural countryside where the Plain People live, you roll down your windows to be pleasantly greeted by the sweet smell of newly mown hay. You take a deep breath and sigh. Immediately the tension leaves your body and a feeling of relaxation envelopes the very air around you. You have entered one of the peaceable kingdoms of Amish Country.
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