Flour sacks
#12
Currently, I find Cooper's Mill flour in sacking - it is a company local to our area. I understand there is a company out of Montana that also is using fabric. Haven't heard of others.
We are fortunate to have Gloria Hall in our area, as well. She spoke to our guild about feed sacks, displaying several of the things she has collected. She also has a line of fabric out now that reproduce the feed sack prints.
We are fortunate to have Gloria Hall in our area, as well. She spoke to our guild about feed sacks, displaying several of the things she has collected. She also has a line of fabric out now that reproduce the feed sack prints.
#14
There was a joke going around some time ago about a mother making underwear for her son out of flour sacks and every time he f**ted it smelled like fresh baked biscuits.
Originally Posted by Ellen
I saw Eleanor Burns in Paducah when she was talking about flour sacks...told a story about her grandmother making underwear for her grandfather out of flour sacks and right across the front of one pair it said "Self Rising". I thought the tent would collapse. Sooooo funny.
#15
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Western PA - N of PGH
Posts: 241
I remember well going to our neighbors, who raised turkeys, and buying empty feed sacks, all stitching removed and laundered and ironed ready for use. They cost 25 cents and measured a little over a yard. 2 or 3 made me a dress. They were very colorful and I liked being able to walk over the hill thru our fields to their house to make my purchases. Memories!!! This was over 60 years ago. Ruth
#17
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Elmira, NY
Posts: 6,113
Originally Posted by brookemarie19
So how do I tea dye things? just make some tea and put it in a plastic tub with the flour sacks? How long do you keep it in there?
#18
Originally Posted by brookemarie19
So how do I tea dye things? just make some tea and put it in a plastic tub with the flour sacks? How long do you keep it in there?
... If you want to tea dye stuff so its sort of blotchy (to make it more antique looking) you can put it into the tea without dampening it first, and you can dab the leftover tea bag onto the fabric and make darker spots, as well. This method works well for making antique looking cloth dolls,etc. (I wear rubber gloves so I can get in there and swish it around.) Enjoy.
#20
When you're doing the tea or coffee dyeing and want the more antique look, I dipped the towels in the tea for about 1/2 hr, rinsed and allowed to dry. After the towels were dry, I took a clean 2" paint brush dipped in the tea and dab on a paper towel to take up the excess liquid then brushed tea over the towel. Allowed the towel to air dry. This gave a more stained appearance instead of overall aged appearance.
Something that I found with the tea, and maybe this might depend on what type of tea is used, but I used ordinary tea bag tea but the tea-dyed towels had a pinkish cast to them where those dyed with coffee had more of brownish shade. My husband says when he was a Boy Scout, his grandmother dipped his BS shirts in strong coffee to help keep the khaki color. Chris
Something that I found with the tea, and maybe this might depend on what type of tea is used, but I used ordinary tea bag tea but the tea-dyed towels had a pinkish cast to them where those dyed with coffee had more of brownish shade. My husband says when he was a Boy Scout, his grandmother dipped his BS shirts in strong coffee to help keep the khaki color. Chris
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