Originally Posted by adamae

Many years ago, Mom taught us to cut with scissors into the selvedge side of the fabric, find a loose thread and pull it, thereby finding the true straight of the grain and then cutting where the thread had been. Wow, was that tedious! Today, I like my plaids, stripes and directional prints to look smartly on the straight. Once I bought yards and yards of a toile only to learn it was printed crooked on the bolt. Still trying to use it up in scrappy quilts.