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  • ISBN13: 9780740777639
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Gather 'round! The endearing follow-up to The Apron Book is now served. EllynAnne Geisel graces us together with her new treasure, The Kitchen Linens Book. It's a lovely treat.

Family kitchens are where our days initiate and end. And one constant is threaded among the people, the stories, and the moments: America's kitchen linens. If only these prized pieces could speak.

The Kitchen Linens Book invites women of all ages to visit together with the past. In this book, Geisel provides us an up-shut look at tablecloths, dishtowels, and napkins together with details and histories as fine as the stories themselves. Embroidered or hemstitched, linens or oilcloths--these are the fabrics and the memories of our mothers and grandmothers. And every one has an endearing story and a vivid history.

*The book features over 20 projects and 8 recipes.

* The book consists of a classic Butterick transport pattern for a vintage kitchen towel motif, circa 1945.

* Rich photography highlighting each detail accompanies stories passed from generation to generation.

* EllynAnne's passion for finding and saving linens from flea markets, estate sales, and antique stores will inspire you to dig throughout your own closets and cupboards.

Visit: apronmemories.com

Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 5 of 5  The Kitchen Linens Book   2009-11-23
By S. Brown (Michigan)
This book is very informative on how to care for and use vintage linens. Presentation and displaying tips were very helpful.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Wonderful Little Book   2009-09-02
By S. Thornton (Denver, CO United States)
I carried this book with me on a trip, and EVERYONE decided to
read it. It's very well put together. If you like Kitchen stuff, or
are into vintage fabrics or stitchery, this book is a great addition
to a collection. We oohed and ahhhed all the way through it.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  The Kitchen Linens Book:Using, Sharing, and Cherishing the Fabrics of Our Daily LivesEverything I had hoped it would be!!!!   2009-08-30
By Yankee Fan #1
Everything I had hoped it would be!!!!! Fast reading and beautiful pictures also. Good mix of info on tablecloths and other linens as well.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Lovely Linens   2009-08-21
By Julie A. Pruss (Brockport NY)
In our family, there has always been a treasure trove of linens, many embroidered by the hands of long-dead relatives. As a child I did not pay much attention to the time and skill that went into these works, but was rather blasé about them because they were always there, ready and available to serve as a dresser scarf, cover a table, or were stored away as "special". Looking back, I am horrified by my treatment of some of these linens, and as my family has grown and aged, I have a newfound appreciation for the time my ancestors put into making, creating, and decorating these linens. Considering that many of these women worked on farms, the time they took out of their already busy day to decorate plain pieces of white linen is remarkable. With these women in mind, it was with great pleasure that I read EllynAnne Geisel's The Kitchen Linens Book: Using, Sharing, and Cherishing the Fabrics of Our Daily Lives. In this book, like in her previous one, The Apron Book: Making, Wearing, and Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort, Geisel shares photographs of vintage aprons, appliance covers, handkerchiefs, towels, napkins, tablecloths, and other table linens while interweaving their history, providing recipes, and personal narratives for each of the items. This is not a book that you look through all at once, nor is it one that you look through and then never open again; Geisel's book should be considered something of a small coffee-table book where photographs of vintage linens are meant to be studied and appreciated again and again. Geisel also provides tips on caring for vintage linens, ideas on how to resurrect ruined linens for use as cards, or decorations, as well as ways to reincorporate them into everyday use. These linens and their designs may strike some as too antiquated and quaint for a modern family, but by writing this book Geisel is helping readers appreciate the timeless beauty and simplicity of embroidered cloth, and reinforcing the joy one can have in using their linens as they were meant to be used. If your supply of vintage linen is low, or even if you already have some, this book will have you cruising yard sales and online auction sites for vintage items similar to the ones shown.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  A highly recommended addition to personal and community library Americana collections   2009-08-10
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Most people are not aware that kitchen linens had their beginnings in the years of the Great Depression when women who in better times would have had servants and cooks, were now of financial necessity having to do their own cooking and cleaning up. But being women of formerly privileged backgrounds, they found solace in having the linens associated with kitchen chores be infused with color and design, making them articles of elegance as a kind of consolation for the loss of kitchen staff to do these chores for them. Thus was born the colorful dish towel and all the other linens associated with the kitchen, along with such items as tablecloths and cloth napkins. All this history and so much more are to be found in the beautifully and profusely illustrated pages of EllynAnne Geisel's "The Kitchen Linens Book: Using, Sharing, and Cherishing the Fabrics of Our Daily Lives", a 152-page compendium of examples, photos, anecdotes, and informed commentary. As entertaining as it is informative, "The Kitchen Linens Book" is a highly recommended addition to personal and community library Americana collections.


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