In this third volume, authors explore a beloved aspect of American folk art—Pennsylvania German redware. Focusing on redware’s production, use, and collecting in southeastern Pennsylvania from the mid-eighteenth to the early-twentieth century, the authors provide fresh insights into renowned potters such as Georg Hubener and Samuel Troxel as well as lesser-known figures.

In this second volume, the authors explore the varied makers and materials of early Americana and folk art. They delve into the history and craft of Cherokee rivercane basket weaving traditions and the life and work of understudied folk artists such as the New England portraitist Sturtevant J. Hamblin and the German immigrant Charles C. Hofmann.