Amish Folk Artist Barbara Ebersol

her life, fraktur, and death record book

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Over 75 colored plates provide a veritable collectors' guide to Barbara Ebersol's (1846-1922) needlework, fraktur motifs, borders, and lettering styles. David Luthy provides this portrayal of Amish life along Mill Creek as well as reflections on Ebersol's art and on Amish sensibilities. Unprecedented opportunity to view the world of Old Order Amish through the eyes of one of their own scholars. Includes biography and index. Distributed by Herald Press for Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society.