News/Press Coverage

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The Globe And Mail – July 16, 2010 – Stylish aprons make a comeback

The Virginian Pilot The Virginian-Pilot – July 13, 2010 – Domestic Renaissance fuels Apron Revival

Alice Brown hopes to launch a revival.

“I think aprons should make a comeback,” she said. She’s been sewing and wearing aprons for years – to cook, to garden, to clean, to paint. She has aprons for holidays – St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas – and for just about every activity” …

EllynAnne Geisel doesn’t know Brown, but they would probably get along as well as a pair of apron strings. Geisel, who lives in Colorado, is the author of “The Apron Book,” “Apronisms” and “The Kitchen Linens Book.” She celebrates aprons, items that she calls “the armor of domesticity.” …

… On hearing about Brown’s nostalgia for aprons, Geisel said, “I thought it was so fascinating that this woman is sewing aprons from her grandmother’s pattern because, in the apron book, I quoted women who remembered their mothers and grandmothers sewing aprons as a way of augmenting their incomes.”

Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel – May 28, 2010 – Aprons are heating up homes again

“Aprons are soooo back!” whoops EllynAnne Geisel, author of “Apronisms: Pocket Wisdom for Every Day” (Andrews McMeel, 2008). “When I saw that Charlotte (Kristin Davis in Sex and the City 2), the sophisticated icon for Mommyhood, was wearing one, it was wonderful!”

Los Angeles Times LA Times – May 6, 2010 – Aprons: Go ahead and tie one on

"The garment no longer symbolizes women's relegation to the kitchen but their delight in being there."

… Author and apron archaeologist EllynAnne Geisel, whose website, www.apronmemories.com, is dedicated to celebrating aprons, kitchen linens and the women who used them, sees the renewed interest in aprons as something that goes deeper, something spiritual. Something that allows us to make peace with the past.

“It’s a connector, it’s one item that ties us to women everywhere, across time,” says Geisel, who makes, sells and collects aprons and brings many of them along with her when she travels the country for speaking engagements.

And wherever she goes, the women line up and the memories pour out. “It just makes people melt. They talk about aprons and suddenly they’re talking about their mothers and their childhood.”

“Aprons don’t hold us back — they take us back,” she added. “They honor women of an earlier generation. And those women were doing the best they could.”

Additionally: Check the LA Times (apron) photogallery. EllynAnne’s photographs # 4, 5, 6

Myrtle Beach “Ties One On” to celebrate Apron Chronicles successful run!

Houston Chronicle – Jan 20, 2010 – Aprons: Wrapped in history

“The apron now stands for a lot of things,” says EllynAnne Geisel, author of The Apron Book and one of the nation’s best-known collectors. “It’s a storytelling vehicle. It’s domestic armor. It’s a memory trigger….”

Additionally: View the photo gallery – Aprons: a comeback

Art Daily Artdaily.org – December 20, 2009

EllynAnne to Tie One On… in Myrtle Beach, SC
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The Washington Times – Nov 4, 2009

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Exhibit covers aprons
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Country Living – November 2009
Country Living and EllynAnne…TieOne On! Pages 53-55

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Creative Machine Embroidery – November 2009

Creative Machine Embroidery sponsors EllynAnne’s National Tie One On Day™ ! Share your stories at www.sewingdistrict.com and at www.apronmemories.com/tie-one-on-day , enter to win autographed copies of EllynAnne’s books.

Montecito Journal – August 25, 2009
EllynAnne is featured on the cover and in a 2-page article in the Vol 15 Issue 32 (Aug 20-27, 2009) of Montecito Journal.

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- BookPage reviews THE KITCHEN LINENS BOOK!

On or before the first of August, 450,000 copies of BookPage’s review will arrive in more than 3,000 subscribing bookstores and public libraries nationwide, who will then distribute BookPage to the avid readers who patronize their stores/libraries.

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Cooking with Paula Deen – July/August 2009 issue feature article – EllynAnne Woman of Note (click to view larger)

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Romantic Homes magazine – July 2009 issue featured article on The Kitchen Linens Book (click to view larger)

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The Denver Post – May 9, 2009
The Kitchen Linens Book and The Apron Book are listed on the Denver Post’s local best sellers list!
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