Celebrating our 75th Anniversary!Come join us for our 28th annual American Artisan Show located at the Wilton Historical Society!
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Dates: Friday, November 1st 7pm to 9:30pm Saturday, November 2nd 10am to 5pm Sunday, November 3rd 12pm to 5pm
Location:This year's American Artisan Show will be located on 224 Danbury Road on our beautiful 5-building complex comprising two 18th century homes, two 19th century barns, and a working blacksmith shop.
For additional information please contact artisanshow@wiltonhistorical.org
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Andersen and Stauffer Furniture
www.andersenandstauffer.com
At Andersen & Stauffer, we create authentic copies of 17th, 18th, and early 19th century American antiques. How do we accomplish this? By being exacting. And passionate and experienced. Founders Alan Andersen & Tom Stauffer have been working with wood for as long as they’ve been able to hold hammers. Together, our team develops and perfects techniques to construct classic pieces and simulate antique surfaces, as well as conserve and restore cherished pieces.
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ASL Pewter
ASL Pewter Foundry believes in tradition and craftsmanship. To that end, all of our product designs are either based on historic pewter pieces, or original creations. We at ASL Pewter Foundry prefer to work personally with our customers.
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A.W. Scopes
www.awscopes.com
Kaleidoscopes by Arny Weinstein. Contemporary and sculptural, the scopes you will find here are meticulously handcrafted from a variety of hardwoods. Front surface mirrors are used with magnifying lenses to produce clear and captivating views of flame-worked glass forming meditative mandalas and exotic 3-dimensional images. All interior views exhibited here are photographs capturing a moment inside a kaleidoscope.
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Barking Dog Studio
http://www.barkingdogjewelry.com/Site/Sterling_silver.html
I do all the work by hand, one piece at a time, from initial design to final polishing - no mass production. As a result, my designs create some of the most accurate reproductions and examples of historic colonial style jewelry, especially with respect to my hand made chains, hand forging, weaving, repousse’, chasing, and embossing.
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Bill Howe
whitehorse-studios.com
White Horse Studios specializes in custom fine furniture and turned wooden bowls hand-crafted by Bill Howe and Jesus Rodriguez. All pieces are one-of-a-kind using a variety of exotic and native hardwoods, many featuring hand-inlaid turquoise.
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Bob Ferrucci Paintings
www.bobferrucciart.com
Bob’s stylized barns and love for the farms and fields will never change but his intensity about his abstract work is very strong. He sees it from a spiritual personal growth perspective. His effort is expanding, reaching out, driving the new forces onto canvas.
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Canvasworks Floorcloths
http://canvasworksfloorcloths.com
These painted canvas floorcloths are made as they would have been hundreds of years ago- one painstakingly slow step at a time. She designs each piece, lays it out on paper then transposes it to a prepared canvas “blank” floorcloth before painting it. She uses little more than paints, brushes and a sewing machine to create each work of floor art.
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Coombs & Brown Furniture
Furniture maker Charlie Coombs of Pomfret reproduces out of the ordinary pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries. He specializes in high country and painted furniture primarily from New England. Coombs’ work has been featured in numerous publications including New England Antiques Journal and has, on several occasions, appeared nationally in Early American Life magazine, having been selected as one of this nation’s top craftsmen by that publication. He has also been commissioned by Old Sturbridge Village to recreate several pieces for their museum exhibits.
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Country ProductsEnnis Country USA is a family run studio/work shop started in 1990 by Richard and Binky Ennis. Since then, they have grown from a couple to a staff of 6, designing, building, and painting old tin Folk Art made from 19th century rustic tin recycled from old rusted barn roofing. Their products range from a simple heart to an intricate Morgan Horse weathervane. Each piece is hand crafted the same way a black smith builds his product. In as much as copper is used for the framework a hearth or forge is not needed to heat the metal to bend it.
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Gary Stretar
www.garystretar.com
Many of my paintings are simple, straight forward views of rural America painted from memory in my studio not "plein air" or on site. Several paintings, however, are composed as studies of textures, color, or American themes that have a more folk or even modern composition overlaid with realism. Tonation, color and texture are more important than line value in my paintings. I do consider myself a realism painter and I am always seeking those iconic images that make a connection - a common bond with my audience.
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Hanway Mill House
Hand-Painted and Stenciled Paper Mache Boxes with Colonial Charm! Her boxes are inspired by her Grandmother, antiques and the love of old colonial homes. She paints full time out of her home and LOVES IT !
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Heidi Howard, Maker and Painter
www.heidihoward.com
Heidi Howard makes contemporary interpretations of 18th and 19th century
trade and tavern signs, salesman's samples and assemblages in her Eastford,
Connecticut studiio. Custom work is her specialty and additional services
include painted fireboards and overmantels.
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Helen Howard, Painter
www.helenhoward.net
A successful antiques dealer for more than 35 years, specializing in Americana and folk art, Helen Howard is perhaps even more accomplished as a folk artist. Her period-style watercolors of sailing ships, as well as her naïve portraits and freehand theorems, capture the look and feel of original works with uncanny accuracy.
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Hoffman Woodward
www.hoffmanwoodward.com
We offer our work of fabrics (woolens, linen, hemp) as well as objects from the hands of friends who share our interest in the material culture of the 18th and 19th centuries
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Kathie Ratcliffe www.ninepatchstudio.com
I create miniature quilts inspired by traditional 19th century designs. Each miniature quilt captures the essence of an actual 19th century American pieced quilt or quilt pattern. These quilts, often preserved in museums or private collections, are priceless expressions of early American creativity and design.
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Marie Helene Grabman http://www.main.nc.us/openstudio/MHGrabman/
My artwork has been described as "traditional Swiss-German scherenschnitte (scissor cuttings) with elements of silhouettes or collage". Each "museum quality", original, copyrighted paper cut design is hand cut with European scissors. Many of the scherenschnitte cuttings, have full or partial symmetry in their composition. (Click on each thumbnail to get details, size and price information.) This is achieved by folding the paper as it is cut. The "collage" element in my work comes into play after the scissor cutting is complete. The intricate scherenschnitte, one piece of paper, forms the base for the collage.
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Sailors' Valentines
www.lyndasusanhennigan.com
Seashells throughout history have been used to produce beautiful works of art. This site is devoted to one of those seashell crafts called Sailors Valentines. It involves intricate works of art using a variety of seashells.
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Three Points Design
www.threepointsdesign.com
We are a design studio located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and we specialize in creating custom one of a kind art using primarily wood, metal and paint as our mediums. Our focus remains mostly in the realm of traditional folk art, however we can custom create anything from scratch as long as you have an idea
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Vaillancourt Folk Art
http://valfa.com
Vaillancourt Folk Art is one of the last remaining "Made in America" Christmas studios. Located in Sutton, Massachusetts and founded in 1984, Vaillancourt chalkware has become a household name to collectors of all seasons around the world. They continues to operate with the goal of starting your family tradition by creating that special gift that will be handed down throughout generations.
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Will Moses
www.willmoses.com
Whether you are viewing the work of Will Moses for the very first time or for the 100th time, you will very likely find yourself unusually fascinated and charmed by what you are seeing.
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