or flour sack from the 1940s.
Quilt designed by Jenni at the Found Fabrics Shop using genuine antique feed sacks. Way back, basic things like flour, pancake mix, grains and chicken feed were delivered to the store in white cotton bags. Manufacturers got wise to the fact that house wives were reusing the bags to sew clothes and household things. At this time, America was experiencing a Depression, so manufacturers got competitive with each other and started printing the bags with popular dress prints in order to get folks to buy their goods! Buying chicken feed meant happy chickens and also a new yard of fabric to sew a pretty girl's dress or add onto a quilting project. Millions of yards of thousands of prints of fabrics were manufactured within a very short amount of time (about the mid-30s through the beginning of 1950s). By the end, more economical forms of packaging hit the shelves, like cardboard boxes and double-walled paper bags. Pretty cotton flour bags faded into history...