Thrift store find!
#12
Originally Posted by Gal
Love your fabric finds, what is a feedsack please?
Gal
Gal
#14
I doubt if the holes would disapear. Are there selvages? If they are 35" wide they are probaby fabric yardages of the same era. Nice find. In antique stores the feedsacks sell for a lot more than you gave for them.
#15
Originally Posted by Gal
Thanks Cathie, I thought it was flour or something like that, how lovely, I bet they are well prized nowadays! Very pretty prints!
Gal
Gal
#16
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I was a child during WWII and fabric wasn't readily available but my grandmother would save her feed sacs for me to have a dress. As you grew, it took three or four so it was thrilling to get enough to make a dress. Flour came in them later. Also, sugar came in sacs that were a course off white and had writing on them. Your sacs look exactly like I remember feed sacs. They were sewm together on the side and the selvage was across the top.
#18
I recall the flour bags made of cotton,( in the 50's) my Mum made me petticoats and nickers from them. She bleached the writing out, then made the undergarments and added her own lace or embroidery stitches to make them pretty. I remember one set had lovely Dutch girls on it with windmills and she put blue Rickrack along the bottom of the petticoat, it was nice enough to wear on the outside, all the work she put into it!!
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Fantastic find!
I have been saving the bags we buy rice in...mainly from Pakistan I think....I plan on incorporating them into a quilt backing - the logos are pretty interesting, Tigers and suchlike.
I have been saving the bags we buy rice in...mainly from Pakistan I think....I plan on incorporating them into a quilt backing - the logos are pretty interesting, Tigers and suchlike.
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