A live hex sign painting was a new addition to this year’s Kutztown Folk Festival.Standing on a ladder 12 feet in the air, hex sign painter Patrick Donmoyer, Pennsylvania German Cultural ...

Rachel Yoder started painting hex signs as a way to reconnect to her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, and now wants her folk art to help others connect to their culture, too.

READING — Eric Claypoole has been around hex signs since he was 5 years old, but there's one question he still can't answer: Why do the Pennsylvania Dutch paint hex signs on their barns?

The hex sign tradition was “reinvented” in the 1950s, he said, by artists such as Milton Hill, who is credited with creating the spinning star effect; Johnny Ott; and Johnny Claypoole, whose ...

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs will debut new uniforms featuring hex signs and other Pennsylvania Dutch symbols for all Saturday home games starting in 2024.