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Pennsylvania Dutch

American, b. 19th c.
The Pennsylvania Dutch are not Dutch. Dutch, in this case, does not refer to the Netherlands. It's a mistranslation of the word Deutsch, the German word for the German language. The Pennsylvania Dutch are ancestrally German. In the USA today, the Pennsylvania Dutch are a major ethnic/cultural group in Pennsylvania. Their ancestors arrived in the American colonies back in the 1680s, settling into their own part of Pennsylvania and building new German communities based on the ones they left behind in the Rhine Valley. The furniture objects created by these craftspeople was often straightforward and direct, but nevertheless often followed the German tradition of utilizing elaborate joints to hold it together. Furniture pieces emphasized straight lines, not curves, and very commonly had tapered legs.