Feedsack Vintage "FLORAL" 100% Cotton Quilt & Sewing Fabric

Feedsack Vintage "FLORAL" 100% Cotton Quilt & Sewing Fabric (image 1/[null])
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THE FEEDSACK FABRIC SIZE IS LISTED IN ITEM SPECIFICS UNDER DESCRIPTION ABOVE. WE ARE SELLING VARIOUS sizes including WHOLE FEEDSACKS, 1/2 SACKS & 1/4TH SACKS as well as GROUPS of feedsack pieces in different sizes. Feedsacks came in varied weights and sizes to accommodate the product that was sold in the sack. Flour sacks are tighter woven and often lighter weight fabric. A few of the chicken feed sacks are very loosely woven and heavier weight depending on the size of grain that was sold in the sack.I remember going to the store with my Grandmother to buy chicken feed & getting to pick a feedsack fabric pattern I liked. So many of my clothes were made from feed sacks and floursacks in the 1940's & 1950's.My husband & I are donating part of each feedsack pattern we have ever owned to preserve the history associated with the thousands of wonderful American feedsacks produced from the early 1920's to the early 1960's. I am cutting up most of my feedsacks to document as many as possible for the CENTER for AMERICAN HISTORY in Austin on the UNIVERSITY of TEXAS Campus. They are scanning a lot of their donated textile items into the internet for research purposes. They are one of five CENTERS doing this in the US. I love the history of designs printed on feedsacks, truly AN AMERICAN story. The first artistic designs on feedsacks came out read more
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