THE HISTORY OF FEEDSACKS, how feedsacks were used in everyday life || Historical Ponderings

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This video shows the history of feedsacks and how they were used. Keep an eye out for a pair of spectacular 1930's beach pajamas.
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Book on Feedsacks for purchase - www.fatquartershop.com/feed-s...
You Tube video with author of book - • Weber Days: The Plain ...
Dissertation on feedsack fashion from 1949-1968 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org/af1c...
From Feedsack to Clothes Rack - digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/vi...
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AMAZING BEACH PAJAMAS - thevintagestylist
Ladies in feedsack dress parade from 1948 - www.newsobserver.com/living/l...
War ration book - texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/675...
Elias Howe - worldkings.org/news/world-alma...
Uses of feedsacks - slate.com/human-interest/2017...
Pre-washed feedsack image - newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewc...
Feedsack with cut out doll- trc-leiden.nl/trc-digital-exh...
Gingham girl feedsack - www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...
Feedsack cartoon clothes line and Washable ink - ameripics.wordpress.com/2016/...
Day of the week towel image - laurelleaffarm.com/linens/flo...
Family photo and Percy Kent Ad photo - archiveproject.com/the-amazin...

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@shariwelch8760 3 года назад

My grandmothers, who were both young wives during the Depression, called them Flour Sacks, and Flour Sack Dresses. They also made pillowcases, curtains, underwear, towels, and everything else you can imagine out of them. But they were happy to throw it all away in the 50's when things changed 😭

@DawnDavidson Год назад

My relatives called them flour sacks, too.

@jackiejames4551 7 месяцев назад

Feed sack clothes, a blast from the past. As the 3rd of 4 daughters I wore many a feed sack garment. As the wife of a local law enforcement officer and the mother of 6 kids my mom was a genius at making clothes for childern using all kinds of cloth. Her favorite was the feed sack, mainly because our neighbor would give them to her for free. (He was single with no kids, so he had little use for fancy bags.)

@leannglasman7147 3 месяца назад

I loved this historical account about feed sack fabric. I would love to hear more about how fabrics have affected our ancestors' habits and vice versa. You did a very good job digging into the past. Thank you!

@WthrLdy 8 месяцев назад

Our local flour mill still sold 20 pounds of flour in feedsacking, cotton calico, until it closed in Dec of 2022. I miss it. It had THE finest, softest milled flour you can imagine. I used the sacking to make quilt squares and bonnets, and dish towels for rising dough.

@johnettehaines6291 6 месяцев назад

My Grandma used them to make clothes for my Mom and her brothers during the depression. I even had play clothes made from a few. And currently l am making dish towels that l have stamped with embroidery patterns to embroidery for gifts.

@susannyloves Год назад

I recently bought, what I thought, was a piece of a crazy quilt top, at a thrift store and was labeled “from the 1950s.” It looks almost identical to that dress and has the black chicken scratch stitches throughout. Now, I want to find out more about it! So glad you made this video! Thanks!

@suziejohnson2690 2 месяца назад

I’m in my late 60s and remember wearing clothes made from chicken feed sacks and actually the first few pieces of clothing I made for myself while in elementary school were chicken feed sacks. All my grandmother’s curtains, aprons ‘yard dresses’ and much more, including hundreds of quilt squares were made from the sacks. She would often have my grandfather pick out the colors she needed, based on the sample she sent, for either clothes or quilts. I miss that beautifully soft fabric.

@altond511 Год назад

I grew up on a small farm in the forties and fifties The grain for the animals came in 100 pound bags, mostly burlap but a lot of it came in cotton bags some of which were white which my mother would use to make sheets and pilowcases but some were print bags which were real pretty. Farmers could return the bags for the deposit on them but they were seldom returned because women in the neighborhood had them all spoken for. They would make shirts and dresses out of them.

@gwendavis1623 6 месяцев назад

I remember getting to pick my feed bags for a dress or shirt. I love the fabric. Sad when the flour mill stopped making them.

@mrcanada1104 4 года назад

Really great work on the history - it’s fascinating stuff to see more behind the scenes of the fashion industry.

@StephanieCanada 4 года назад

Thanks for watching! I am so glad I can help.

@verandahmeander Год назад

Thanks. This was a truly interesting video. That dress was stunning - and I am inspired to try my hand making one similar. (Just add it to the 101 other projects I would like to make! At least I am part way there - being a compulsive fabric shopper I DO have the necessary fabrics.)

@daralynncameron3290 Год назад

Remember feed sack skirts as late as 1958, when we moved into the suburbs and away from the country school I had attended while on a military base. in Texas. The base kids always envied the beautiful print skirts the local girls wore. We had to wear plain cottons our mothers made up from the local Comal Cottons outlet store or bought in town (officers kids). Now think our moms thought prints "declassee".

@tinawelch3005 2 года назад

holey scraps batgirl!!! my weekend has been saved by your humor and content. cant wait to binge your channel

@vickismallwood2082 Год назад

Oh my gosh catching up on you videos and I can remember these bags. My grandmother taught us how to embroidery on them and by learning to embroidery youvwere learning every stitch you would need to sew with. A must have knowledge to be a good wife someday. Boy did she miss that xall. Lol I joined burn the the bra movenent instead. Not really but the theory of it.

@lucyflorey9152 2 года назад

My husband's sisters made feedsack dresses and skirts because of the poverty of the family. There were eight children; their father died young. They were very independent, hard working and savy.

@dolliehoraney4216 3 года назад

My mother learned how to do "Chicken Scratch embroidery" Also called poor mans lace which was a way to embellish gingham feed sack clothing during the great depression

@aatsista Год назад

My Late Mother who was in her 80's when she passed about 5 years ago when she passed, used to do the same when she'd darn our socks! 😂 We had enough money to buy socks but old habits die hard for a coal miner's daughter! ❤️

@dawnelder9046 Год назад

I have a tablecloth I was given as a present made that way. Very pretty.

@aeray3581 Год назад

I had a flour sack quilt top that my great-grandmother made. Alas, it missed getting packed when I moved to England. 😟

@StephanieCanada Год назад

Oh no!!! That is such a bummer.

@cdeg1964 Год назад

Those of us who occasionally use pillowcases for items are kind of working in the same way as the folks who made feed sacks. I am wondering if the current "quilting' cottons that are available now are what replaced the feed sacks for the mills.

@ivoryhenson1285 3 года назад

This is so cool, I'd never even heard of these feedbacks before. Thanks for the awesome video!

@StephanieCanada 3 года назад

Thank you so much! I love feedsacks! I love them so much that I am going to make a pair of 1930’s beach pajamas.

@ivoryhenson1285 3 года назад

@@StephanieCanada oh that's going to be so cute, hope you do a video of it. Totally didn't think you'd reply since this is an old video. I randomly found you a couple weeks ago and have been working my way through your videos since. We have such similar personalities, I feel like I found a new (virtual) sewing buddy.

@amauryy4417 3 года назад

How interesting!I never heared about these feedsacks here in France...

@barbaralies 3 года назад

My mother who was born in 1930 talked about her mother making clothes from croker sacks. These were cotton, not burlap and apparently made nice dresses for my mom. Thanks for the history!

@Avotts 3 года назад

FLEEK means on point like perfectly groomed eyebrows...Hercule Peroits mustache was on fleek.

@StephanieCanada 3 года назад

Nice! Thank you!

@lisita1020 4 года назад

Thank you for providing information on feedsack. By the way the apron and pajamas are so beautiful. ❤️

@StephanieCanada 4 года назад

Thank you so much for watching!

@ulexite-tv Год назад

We called them Flour Sacks and i sewed many girl's dresses of them through the 1970s, and worked them into quilt tops as well. They made nice pillowcases, too. The real trick was to find several that matched, so you could make a larger piece of clothing, or to figure out a patched pattern that used two or more printed in a logical way.

@HRH_Queen_JoJo 3 года назад

Loved this! More history, please

@StephanieCanada 3 года назад

Working on it! I have a bunch of fun ideas coming in 2021.

@aatsista Год назад

My Late Mother who was in her 80's called any type of cotton print shirt, dress, tea towel & linen a flour sack. So her "Flour Sack Shirt" or her "Flour Sack Nightgown" even though she bought it from The Mall like at Addition Elle, Winners, The Bay or even earlier at Sears. 🥰 She was a coal miners daughter as a young child around the Lethbridge Area.

@cathyswope5174 3 года назад

Great info, very interesting

@StephanieCanada 3 года назад

Thank you so much!

@sewing4gigi467 4 года назад

Love it!!! Like Gunne Sax dresses in the late 60’s

@StephanieCanada 4 года назад

Oh! Maybe I should do a history on them! That could be some fun vintage fashion to look at.

@sewing4gigi467 4 года назад

Stephanie Canada today I was reading the story of the lady that started Gunne Sax before Jessica MacClintock bought it from her

@shariwelch8760 3 года назад

@@StephanieCanada I was a teen in the 70's and early 80's. I had several Gunne Sax dresses, including one for my Junior Prom, and another as bridesmaid in my sister's wedding. I look at them now and they seem so silly, but I loved them so much at the time.

@phoenixfire8978 2 года назад

I’m trying to imagine the conversations that occurred at feedstores when a man brought in a fabric sample. If the appropriate sacks weren’t easy to hand, would he have been ribbed for being under his wife’s thumb? Or would it have been seen as a loving gesture that the dude is willing to excavate his way through to please his spouse?

@drdhuddleston 4 года назад

Just right!

@StephanieCanada 4 года назад

Thank you so much for watching!

@CherriesJubilee 3 года назад

A more sustainable material would be hemp linen.Hemp doesn't require any insectesides, and about half the water.

@lindamann2113 2 года назад

When my parents adopted a boy in 1953 he was a baby and mom used blue and white gingham as diapers and when they adopted me in 1959 they used pink and white gingham for my diapers and she also made our clothes and my parents clothes out of feed sacks too

@1rahmaan 8 месяцев назад

❤❤❤

@phoenixhexclar9340 Год назад

May I also point out that, with the question of how these looked, when seem ripped, it's just a smallish piece of rectangle fabric, not some weird shaped cutoff.

@StephanieCanada Год назад

Correct!

@humanwithaplaylist 3 года назад

Chicken linen love it

@StephanieCanada 3 года назад

RIght?! I snorted the first time I heard it.

@kimcastle4081 2 года назад

I have a pink flour sack that was never washed, and I love the logo, so I have been afraid to use the sack for anything. Is there anything I might do to preserve the original logo & bright color? Thank you for your fabulousness!

@chrish2277 Год назад

I would frame it behind some glass to minimise exposure to air.

@lovelasnow 8 месяцев назад

I feel like something similar was used at some point before because there was a reference to wearing something similar in the bible

@dorothyyoung8231 3 месяца назад

I live in rural South Carolina. I’ve seen older quilt backings made from sacking where the labels printed on the bags are still visible. And when I was a child in California in the early 1960s we still saw sacks of flour in patterned cotton sacks sold in the regular suburban grocery stores. Finally, I have friends here in South Carolina who recall asking their fathers to pick out two or three pretty matching sacks so they could make a dress.

@lynn858 3 года назад

Well done summary! Watched the youtube video with the author of the book, and the only information that you didn't cover, more succinctly, and with style, was related to quilts - which isn't your thing.

@lynn858 3 года назад

I like this video, if people are looking for more. It's only 18 minutes, has lots of prints, and shows some quilts. The History of Decorative Feed Sacks; Quilts and Fashion Lee Ann Proia

@StephanieCanada 3 года назад

Thank you! I do need to link her video in the description. This was the early days of my channel long before I understood how to credit correctly.