Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Primitive or Country Crafts????

Primitive crafts are home decor items that look as if they were made a hundred years ago but are actually new. Primitive crafts include dolls, paintings, quilts, furniture and even farm tools. The gift of crafting is open to many forms of personal crafting, which allows the artist a lot of room for free will and personal taste. Learning primitive crafting can be rewarding because of the qualities in each piece. Each piece becomes that persons own unique primitive creation...and not for someone else to copy or duplicate.

Even though primitives are new items, most antique stores have a selection because they appeal to antique lovers. You can better appreciate the simplistic styling of primitive crafts when you see them up close.
Notice that primitives and country crafts are similar BUT there is a difference.  The differences are in the details of the overall look. Primitives look as if they have been stored for a long time. They are stained, tattered, rusty and weathered. Primitives are more simplistic than country crafts and look as if an amateur craftsman made them. Country items are usually described as cute and made of unfinished or painted wood and most are manufactured.

Primitive style crafts are simple, classic and antique looking decor items. Primitive crafts can include just about anything you can think of that looks as if it could have come from early American homes. Deep rich colors are common in the primitive style.

Come into the Prim Shack and you will see some original "primitive" hand crafted items....rich colors,  stained, and weathered items, simple crafting done to depict  the Prim Shack's creations and to retain a simple primitive look.

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