My DH says his mom used to make some of their clothes out of feed sack material. He's 57 years old so it hasn't been that long ago. I have quilts on my bed from both grandmothers. The backing is made from the large sacks of feed my grandpas used to buy to feed their stock on the farms. I still have some of it that has been washed and folded in my stash. I'm thinking of using it on the back of the quilt (pictured in my avatar) that I've hand pieced.