My DH (73) lived on a farm in MO and had 5 older sisters. He said that on Saturdays they would fight to see who would go to town with their father to get feed so that they would get to pick out their own prints on the feedsacks. I have several old quilts from the family and I believe they are made from feedsacks. Seems like the fabric is quite coarse though. My DH and I had chickens here on our little farm in the 70's and he was so happy to bring me home some feed in cloth printed feedsacks as we had two daughters and I sewed for them. But, the fabric was also very coarse and I did not use it but still have them in the closet. I remember sitting outside and using my seam ripper and opened them all up and shook out all of the chicken feed and shaking them really hard before bringing them into the house and tossing them in the washer. You just had to release a certain thread and pull it and the whole seam would pull out - very easy - much the same as on big bags of dog food nowdays.