Amish Furniture, Amish Handmade Quilts, Amish Primitive and Rustic Country Decor, Amish Handmade Baskets

We are located in the heart of Ohio. Every weekend we travel over an hour to "Mom and Dad's" for one type of family function or another. We travel on old country backroads through an Old Order Amish Community; however, it is located where there is just no marketplace for tourism. The Amish in that area have been referred to as "Dusty" Amish which means that they are the "poorer" Amish. The Amish children still pack up the horse buggies with baked goods, eggs, fresh produce, and baskets where they take them to sell along the roadside every weekend. We have seen these children travel in their horse and buggy over a 15-mile distance one-way (in other terms: 4 hours each way) just to find potential customers. We are unable to control the lack of tourism by taking the tourists out to see their outstanding products and stimulate the economy, but we do have the technology and honor of giving their handcrafted items "worldwide" exposure! This site puts the Amish in your back yard. Please help us to help them!

This store is packed full of authentic rustic Amish wares, including all types of baskets. In fact, there is a basket for every budget. If you live in the country or like to decorate your rustic home, log cabin, or garden with handcrafted Amish items, this is the place to find most of the crafts for your primitive furniture and landscape decor. We have the privilege of accessing a variety of quality handcrafted Amish items that can be passed on to you. Beautiful and unique products made by Amish families, including the young children, are added regularly to our store.

I consider myself a normal person in the fast-paced world, probably just like you.  We have our luxuries that we take for granted and never even notice we have them unless we have a power outage. Through my relationship with the Amish, and my desire to learn more about their customs and work ethic, I recently offered my services to assist one of the families of fourteen (14) on their small family farm.  I was soon regretting that decision.  I found myself assisting the young Amish children, ages 7 through 13, in throwing wheat sheaves onto a horse drawn hay wagon .  Needless to say, the young Amish children put me to shame.  I could not keep up!

I have learned that the Amish are very hard working and decent people with an unbelievable work ethic .  They are trained from a very young age that if a job is worth doing it is a job worth doing right. That instilled value is what makes their products so special.  They live a very simple life with minimal furnishings in their homes.  It goes without saying that there are no refrigerators, televisions, computers, radios, electricity, telephones, fans, etc.  What took me by surprise was finding there are no pictures, doilies, what-knots, or even couches inside their homes!  An Amish home  is furnished with wooden beds, handmade quilts, basic dressers, a kitchen table with a few hardwood chairs, and wooden floors without even a throw rug.

The families within this area are carried in a black buggy type carriage, which is pulled by horses. It is not unusual to see a young boy around the age of 9, controlling a team of horses pulling him around a field on a wagon or buckboard. These wagons have wooden wheels with large spokes or thick steel wheels. The wagon wheels have to be sturdy in order to carry logs to the sawmill or hay to the barn. The Old Order Amish do not use rubber on their wheels; even the hub is wood. A metal band (steel tire rim) actually rolls on the roadway. The wheels are a lot like the western wheels shown on the covered wagons except a little bit more narrow.