Description: 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. We will be listing hundreds of different sizes & patterns of FEEDSACKS in the next few months. I have always loved feed sacks since getting a box full from my Grandmother Rogers shortly after I got married. My Grandmother had made a lot of my clothes growing up. She left me all of her scraps, but my most prized possession was the box of feedsacks she gave me in the late 1950's. There were singles plus 4 & 5 feedsacks of the same print. They were all washed, ironed, & folded with no spots or holes; except for the stitching holes. She told me her sister, my Great Aunt Nina (who did not sew & used the feed on their farm in TEXAS) had sent the feedsacks to her, and my Grandmother passed them on to me. 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 about 1924 when my mother, Willa Rogers, was born. Printed cloth for food item sales is still being used today in some countries, such as Mexico, for foodstuffs. Thanks for looking at our sales items. PLEASE CONTACT US IF WE HAVE NOT EARNED A 5 STAR RATING FROM YOU and tell us what we can do better. My retired husband handles the paperwork & listing. I handle the correspondence, packing, and descriptions. I have recently washed & ironed the feedsacks we have listed.
Price: 8 USD
Location: Stevenson, Washington
End Time: 2024-08-25T17:46:29.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Size: Approx. 18" X 20"
Color: Multicolor
Material: Cotton
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
