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The Apron Book: Making, Wearing, and Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort |  | Author: EllynAnne Geisel
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Seller: internationalbooks
Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 61608
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 152
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0740761811
Dewey Decimal Number: 391.44
EAN: 9780740761812
ASIN: 0740761811
Publication Date: September 5, 2006
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Product Description
Vintage aprons and modern designs are turning up in movies, magazine spreads, upscale shops, and hip retail venues like Anthropologie, whose trendy line of aprons is selling as fast as they can stock them. The Apron Book is an infectiously enthusiastic guide to aprons, old and new, that are suddenly everywhere.Aprons take us back to our favorite place¿hearth and home. Vintage aprons help us remember home and family the way they used to be, while bright and sassy contemporary aprons confirm that nesting is all the rage. Actress and trendsetter Julia Roberts has a closetful of vintage aprons. Celebrity custom-made apron auctions have become an annual event for several popular charities in the past few years. The Apron Book provides full-color photos of new and vintage aprons from the author's collection, patterns for four basic apron styles and myriad variations, recipes, tips on collecting and preserving vintage aprons, and heart-tugging stories from the author's traveling apron exhibit. The book also explores the heyday of aprons and looks at the various roles aprons still play when worn in the kitchen, around the house, by the backyard grill, on the job, and for special occasions. Warm and inviting¿but like an apron quite practical!¿this book is a celebration of a great American icon and reminds us of what we loved about the people who wore them.
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 Memories February 7, 2010
Gabby
The Apron Book is so much about my memories with my Grandma. I am excited to read and see about why she wore her aprons often and my memories of standing along side her watching her in the kitchen. It is beautifully done and illistrated.
An enjoyable read January 8, 2010
D. Taylor
This was a very enjoyable book to curl up with and reminisce for a while. It touches on the different uses of aprons and different styles for those uses. I loved the pictures of vintage aprons and it also included several patterns to make your own. This book is not meant to be a source of patterns but is a delightful little book on the history of aprons.
 Mostly wonderful January 5, 2010
Shala Kerrigan (Anchorage)
This book of reminisces, history and apron philosophy is a lovely book. It's stocked full of people's memories of the women and men in their lives who wore aprons and what those aprons meant to them.
There are a few apron projects in it to make your own apron, and they were well illustrated and well explained. I wish there were more of them, but what there was is a great start to creating your own one of a kind aprons.
There are also recipes and cleaning tips.
Mostly I liked it. If you enjoy sewing and love aprons it's a great book, and given the resurgence of domesticity right now and how much more people are cooking at home it's right on target for that niche.
Like a Hug From Grandma! October 20, 2009
E. L. Diaz (Columbia, MO)
Reading EllynAnne Geisel's book of aprons is like going back home again. It's so full of marvelous stories that give the aprons a heart and soul and a history all their own. Patterns & ideas? Yes! Warm & loving stories? Yes! It's a book full of treasures of the heart & home and you will be wise to add this to your collection of nostalgia-oriented items to read over and over again. EllynAnne's book is an inspiration to me and has a special place in my sewing room just for that very reason.
Very nice! October 15, 2009
Ihs4me (Kansas, USA)
I enjoyed this very much! Nice eye candy photos, fun stories and a few cute patterns.
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