Beachbaby12

I bet the printed feed sack fabrics from back in the day were well made. I love them all! Unfortunately, I don't have any history of feed sack from anybody. I just buy the reproduction fabric for feed sacks and 1930s reproduction fabric to hand quilt in my grandmother's flower garden quilt.

I love the picture that was shared! It's awesome!

mjhaess

When I was a child my mother used the fabric from feed sacks for all kinds of sewing projects. I think the fabric was of high quality...

dsews2

Interesting feed sack stories.....we had a mini farm just outside of town and my mom made clothes for my sister and i.....i always welcomed any new clothes. I usually wore hand me downs.....my sister was older. I have a 88 yr. Old friend who buys the white feed sack tea towels and embroiders them for her own use i guess.......they look very nice when done.

SuziSew

I noticed the labels are "Sunbonnet Sue", wonder if that's where the pattern came from!

The image below (via Imgur) has a quote attached "When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, the mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks. The labels were designed to wash out."

I'm sure nowadays they'd just raise the price...[/QUOTE]

quiltingcandy

I can't imagine the use of cloth vs paper was any difference or they wouldn't have used it. The cloth back then would have been much stronger than paper. And having paper was more of a luxury. Thus the use of black boards instead of tablets in school.

janjj

I also had clothes made out of feed sacks.