expert on woods. Moreover and equally importantly, I became friendly with some of Central Pennsylvania’s finest Amish woodworkers.
Those friendships, my love of hardwood furniture and design, and the encouragement of Iris, lead us to start our own line of hardwood furnishings in 2007. I had always been intrigued with the Edelweiss flower, not only because of the song of the same name from the movie, “The Sound of Music”, but also because the flower symbolizes love and affection. So I went to see my Amish woodworker friends and asked if they could carve an Edelweiss flower into whatever piece they were crafting. They said they could, and Edelholz was born. (The literal translation for Edelweiss is “noble white;” Edelholz, thus, is “noble wood”). Edelholz offers a full line of furnishings that include tables, chairs, rockers, stools, bread boxes, cutting boards, lazy susans, dinner plates, and more. Every piece is made from timber harvested by one of our logging crews and has a hand carved Edelweiss flower on it. The timber is harvested, logs are milled, lumber is kiln dried and the furnishings are assembled -- all within 25 miles of the barn. Edelholz also offers a full line of wooden kitchenware that includes egg flippers, pie servers, spatulas, rolling pins, and King Kong salad forks.
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