However, these PA Dutch scribes made such elaborate Fraktur folk art designs so well executed, that in our contemporary culture these American folk art designs can bring as high a price as ...

ESCAPES | A tour of Pennsylvania Dutch country’s “hex barns” shows off the colorful and unusual folk art.

Part 1 In studying early American folk art, there is no shortage of folk art documents and designs that express pioneer immigrants’ gratitude for reaching America at a time when many individu… ...

Rachel Yoder started painting hex signs as a way to reconnect to her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, and now wants her folk art to help others connect to their culture, too.

Most of the hex designs you’ll see on the tour are simple, circular geometic shapes. Hex signs are a uniquely Pennsylvania art form.

He says the tradition grew out of folk art that German settlers brought with them to Pennsylvania. Originally, the designs were based off of stars, hence the "barn star" designation.

The spring exhibit at Franklin and Marshall College’s Phillips Museum of Art combines 18th- and 19th-century folk art with artificial intelligence technology to create new historical narrative ...

In the late 1980s, Pennsylvania could boast more than 400 barn stars — those circular, geometric designs painted on the sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns that most people know as “hex signs ...

It also symbolizes smooth sailing and tranquillity and often is found on colorful hex signs, a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art commonly found painted on barns in Berks County, where I was born.

This historic barn including PA Dutch hex signs appears along Crystal Cave Road in Richmond Twp., Berks County on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art ...

Inspired by Biblical motifs, 18th Century PA Dutch folk art decorated furniture made each wedding couple’s household unique.