Originally Posted by Cathie_R
Originally Posted by Gal
Love your fabric finds, what is a feedsack please?
Gal
I am not sure when this started; I think 30's. Farm wives would buy chicken feed in these pretty cloth bags. When they had enough of one pattern they would make clothes, curtains, etc. from them. I'm sure a lot of people on this board wore clothes made from feed sacks and you see a lot of the fabric in vintage quilts. (If this is not correct someone will surely correct me).
No correction needed. You are right on. When I was small, I wore feedsack dresses and flour sack panties. When I grew older, I graduated to regular store bought panties, but I still wore feed sack dresses. Flour sacks were soft fabric that was more closely woven than feed sacks. Feed sacks were used for curtains, shirts and dresses. Flour sacks were used for dish towels, under clothes and diapers. I doubt that they made very good diapers, although they were soft, but at that time, people used what they had.