Ceramics
The Pennsylvania Dutch were virtually the only people in America in Colonial days who had a strong, imaginative feeling for color and design; for creative art in their households, and even on such earthy objects as their barns, fences, wagons and weather-vanes. Our knowledge of Pennsylvania-Dutch pottery is based on museums, publications, and artifacts. Southeastern Pennsylvania has much red shale and red clay giving the Dutch potters their opportunity, very soon after they had settled on their farms and cleared the land. It was a practical because they needed crocks, pots, baking dishes, and such, for their food manufacturing activities, also tile for roofs. Very soon the Pennsylvania-Dutch potters were making platters, crocks, jugs, and pots for utilitarian reasons. Early history of ceramics reveals the existence of a number o
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Nearly Pennsylvania-Dutch, Folk Pottery, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Tools Processes, England Italy, America Colonial, Pennsylvania Dutch, Southern Europe, Thousand Pottery, Folk Craft, red clay, pie plate, plug mill, barn designs,
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