Over the past few months, I have shared with you wood cutting boards; copper; your porch, garden and home-work spaces; lampshades; and wine-bottle jugs and labels. All are popular for farmhouse/French ...

One of our faithful Inter Lake readers sent me a poem the other day titled “Flour Sack Underwear,” along with a note saying “hope this little poem brings back some fond memories.” The poem is about a ...

During the Depression and war years, penny-pinching seamstresses found the perfect fodder for frugal fashion. Using cotton fabric from feed and grain sacks, they turned rags into homespun stitches.

Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker a Librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. This weeks article is by Marian Ann J. Montgomery, Ph.D., Curator of Clothing and Textiles, Museum ...

In the early part of the 20th century all kinds of necessary products were sold in cotton sacks. Flour, rice, seeds, sugar, cornmeal and resourceful women who lived on farms made use of that fabric.

Cherished by America's farmers for years, cloth feed sacks are part of America's rural history and are now entering the marketplace as hot collectibles. Over 500 color photographs illustrate fabulous ...

In what one milling company called “A Bag of Tricks,” feed, flour and sugar sacks during the Great Depression and World War II eras provided a frugal option for fabric. “Thrift Style,” a traveling ...

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