16" Folk Hearts & Flowers Conestoga Hex Sign Design by Hexologist Ivan Hoyt

Description

All Hex Signs are made in
AMERICA
Featured in this sale . . . .
One
New
16"
Folk Hearts & Flowers
Conestoga Hex Sign
Hoyt Design
WHAT YOU ARE BUYING
One 16" Folk Hearts and Flowers Hex Sign, with a detailed mea
ning of the
sign.
A paper on the History Hex Signs.
This sign is one of the popular Conestoga Crafted Hex Signs and is a
nominal 16" in Diameter
.
(See picture below)
This sign is
new
, sealed in plastic and made of
Double Tempered
Sign Board,
decorated with a Silk Screen Process
Wood verses sign board
I have chosen craftsmen who use sign board over those who make signs out of wood.
Wood may warp, crack, bleed and or fade colors over a long period of time,
tempered sign board is more stable and holds color longer.
Instructions for indoor or outdoor use come with the sign.
This Hex Sign is perfect for mounting outdoors as well as indoors.
These signs offer a stunning decoration to your barn, stable, shed your home,
and other endless possibilities and makes and excellent gift.
Welcome to Uncle Jack's
Hex Sign Collections.
16"
Folk Hearts & Flowers
Folk Hearts & Flowers
Hex Sign
The triology tulips represent faith in yourself, faith in your fellow man and faith in what you do. The hearts for love, the central rosette for the grace of God  through the twelve months of the year due to it's twelve petals.
A glimpse of the Artist Ivan Hoyt,
from an interview with Hunter Yoder
A Conversation with Ivan Hoyt, Hexologist
From: Hunter Yoder
Date: 2006/05/07 Sun AM 11:54:17 EDT
To: Ivan Hoyt
Subject: 8 pointed stars
Hello,
I like your work.
I recently purchased several of your screened hex signs while in Lancaster county, see attached pic., I have a background in hex signs in Berks county, where the 8 pointed star is favored on barns. Johnny Claypoole's son's were friends of mine and I am familiar with Johnny Ott's work. I am not entirely happy with the commercialization of the genre, and prefer hand painted signs.
The picture of your sign has elements that I refer to as the" east.
I noticed that you favor, several things of interest to me:
1.six pointed stars
2.odd numbered leaf arrangements, particularly the number nine.
3, nine doubled on your outermost border.
I would greatly appreciate any dialogue you may have regarding this and other aspects of hexology, it seems that the language of hex signs is rarely spoken.
Hunter Yoder
Hello Mr. Yoder,
Thank you for purchasing several of the silk screened signs I designed. It may interest you to know the majority of my work is hand painted original designs. However, like some of my predecessors, including Johnny Ott, I design for a silkscreen manufacturer under a licensing and royalty arrangement.
I am also friends with Johnny Claypoole sons and have bartered work with Sean, Neil, and many times with Eric. Johnny and Helen were also my friends before their passing.
Don't be too unhappy with the "commercialization of the genre".
In my opinion, the silk screen work of Jacob Zook, Don Greth,
and others helped many people become educated or informed about this distinctively Pennsylvania Deutsch folk art. Without the volume of hex signs they sold around the world, I am afraid very few people would be aware of this genre. If you visit the
Kutztown Pennsylvania German Festival this July, you will see myself, Bill Schuster, and Eric Claypoole working diligently to
keep the hand painted art of hex signs alive, well, and flourishing.
You are very observant. The design basis for the sign you are holding in the photograph is called the Tree of Life and its inspiration was drawn from antique frakturs that portrayed family trees. Like all my work it is my original design done in the style and tradition of my Pennsylvania Deutsch ancestors.
The six pointed star, the basic single rosette, is the design that I believe started the folk art of hex signs and was modified or embellished as the folk art evolved.
The number 9 in the leaf arrangements means nothing other than spontaneous artistic license as I attempt to vary my designs. I don't believe hex signs should be a stagnant dead art but rather an evolving art. I modestly think I will make my mark on the genre the same way the initial farmer folk artists did as well as Perry Ludwig, Milton Hill, Harry Adam, Johnny Ott, Johnny Claypoole, and other craftsmen have done.
The "nine doubled" border has no symbolic meaning. Eighteen scallops each 20 degrees make a 360 degree circle.
I am currently under contract to write a "How To" book for Stackpole Books. I hope to have it finished and ready for publication by next March.
I would appreciate it very much you would share information you have collected growing up in Berks County with the work of Johnny Ott and Johnny Claypoole or others involved with barn painting and barn decorating. This subject has fascinated me for over 30 years and my research and collecting is ongoing.
Sincerely,
Ivan E. Hoyt
Pennsylvania German Folk Artist
Uncle Jack personally drives to The Pennsylvania Dutch Area, and hand selects all these items to ensure quality and authenticity. Occasionally signs are shipped to me when travel is not possible. My hex signs are bought directly from the craftspeople. Signs are crafted in sizes 8", 16" and 24" diameter. I only offer the most popular 8", 16" and 24"size for E-Bay , due to the vast variety of patterns.
Shipping by U.S.P.O. First Class Mail, Parcel Select, Priority Mail, FedEx or UPS
anywhere in the U.S.A.,
Please see the Shipping and Payments Tab, for costs
.
Packages are being shipped from Wilmington, DE 19808 or Cape May, NJ 08204
This is a old photo of Uncle Jack's 12 foot x 16 foot shed.
With a Double Distelfink 16" in diameter prepared as instructed.
The sign was about 12 years old and had not been recoated
with
polyurethane since it was hung.
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