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Hex sign

Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later when commercial ready-mixed paint became readily available. By…

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Form and use

Controversy over origins

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Hex sign

Nodes42
Edges41
Triples121
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1

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Hex sign

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related to Sources · 62
Hex sign → America, Arcadia Publishing, Artists Look, Craft, December, Don, Dorothy, Edred, Essays, Folk Process, Gandee, Graves, Heiden Hexology, Hex Signs, Hexenmeister, Hoyt, Hunter, Interviews, Irwin, ISBN
related to Form and use · 29
Hex sign → An, As, Barn, Berks County, Drawing, Edward Buchak, Eric Claypoole, Gilbertsville, Hearts, However, Jacob Zook, Johnny, Johnny Ott, Lancaster County, Lehigh County, Lincoln Highway, Milton Hill, Modern, Painted, Paradise
related to Controversy over origins · 18
Hex sign → Before, Blume, Dutch, English, German, German Hexe, Hexefoos, However, Nutting, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Beautiful, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Germans, Sterne, The, There, These, Wallace Nutting's
related to External links · 12
Hex sign → Archived, Art Libraries, Care And Use, Hex SignsHex Sign Themes, MeaningsPictures, PA Dutch CountrySeveral, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs, Signs History Archived, The Metropolitan Museum, Their Symbolism, Wayback MachineHex Signs

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hex pennsylvania signs dutch barn sign barns isbn stars form term german folk century meaning became use many used pa

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Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsThere0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsThe0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsPennsylvania German0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsGerman Hexe0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsDutch0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsHowever0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsWallace Nutting's0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsPennsylvania Beautiful0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsNutting0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsPennsylvania0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsBefore0.60section
Hex signrelated to Controversy over originsBlume0.60section

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