My "authentic" feed sack quilts - from my mother-in-law - the fabric was a lot coarse. Don't know about any printing along the selvages though. She raised 10 kids - five boys and five girls and she sewed all of their clothes except the boy's overalls. She made the girls dresses out of the printed feed sacks, their slips out of the white feed sacks and the boys got a smaller print or plaid for their shirts. My DH - the youngest - said that the girls would have to go to town with their dad on a wagon or later, on a truck, to the feedstore so that they could pick out the prints that they wanted the feed to be put into so that their mother could make them clothes. Kind of like going to a fabric store!!!!!