Flour sacks
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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.
#32
I love hearing the stories about the clothing made from feed sacks and I am sure my great grandmother's quilt was made from feed sacks. I would love to have some to mend an old quilt I wish to restore.
#34
I have a questions about flour sacks used for selling flour and sugar. Didn't the flour and sugar seep out of the fabric??? I don't ever remember my Mom buying flour and sugar in fabric sacks, before my time maybe, I'd imagine, I'm 54. Did you actually get a lb. of food if it was packaged in fabric sacks??? Just a silly question I've always wondered about.
The all over printed feed sacks that were used for clothing were, in MHO, more coarse than regular dress goods and according to the literature of the time, dressing in feed sack material marked you as "country." The companies did their best, though, to produce attractive (for the time) patterns knowing that nice looking material could tilt sales in their favor.
#35
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The flour sacks I remember did not have labels printed on them. The labels were printed on paper that was glued to the fabric. A good soaking removed the label. And they made lovely clothes.
As for tea dyeing, just follow amma's instructions and you should be good. Let the sacks soak to the shade you like. You can always soak them again if you decide you want them darker after they are dried.
As for tea dyeing, just follow amma's instructions and you should be good. Let the sacks soak to the shade you like. You can always soak them again if you decide you want them darker after they are dried.
#37
Originally Posted by dtippens
any pictures of these flower sacks
I will look this afternoon, and post pictures if I find them.
#39
As to the mill - I think it is in Humboldt, NE. I live less than 60 miles from there. If I watch, I can usually find flour in fabric sacks at the local grocery.
For information on feedsacks, there is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvOM2Q7G2DQ
and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iEoF...eature=related
Videos of Gloria Hall presenting a talk for Andover Schoolhouse. (I think that is a presentation for merchants who sell Andover fabric lines.) She gives a good explanation of the history of feed sacks and the development of fabric for the sacks. (They had to come up with good quality fabric to hold the products in the sacks. So, while the print may have been found only in the feed sack lines, the fabric was not as inferior as some may believe. It is not, however, like the quilting fabric we buy today. I think fabric quality continues to improve all the time.)
For information on feedsacks, there is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvOM2Q7G2DQ
and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iEoF...eature=related
Videos of Gloria Hall presenting a talk for Andover Schoolhouse. (I think that is a presentation for merchants who sell Andover fabric lines.) She gives a good explanation of the history of feed sacks and the development of fabric for the sacks. (They had to come up with good quality fabric to hold the products in the sacks. So, while the print may have been found only in the feed sack lines, the fabric was not as inferior as some may believe. It is not, however, like the quilting fabric we buy today. I think fabric quality continues to improve all the time.)
#40
Printed sack pictures: Two of these are still stitched on the bottom and side.
Five different prints.
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This shows the double stitching from inside the bag.
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A view of the stitching from the outside. You can see the run off end of the cord.
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