Vintage Feed Sacks

Author: Susan Miller
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN: 9780764326110
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Over 500 color photographs present colorfully-printed cloth feed and food sacks. Treasured for their fabulous patterns, and for the memories of a simpler time which they evoke, printed cloth sacks have become a hot collectible. Especially appealing to quilters and crafters. Includes price guide.

Feed Sacks

Author: Linzee Kull Mccray
Publisher: Uppercase
ISBN: 9781683560425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
Feed sacks are the perfect example of a utilitarian product turned into something beautiful. Author Linzee Kull McCray explores the history of the humble feed sack, from a plain cotton sack to exuberantly patterned and colorful bags that were repurposed into frocks, aprons, and quilts by thrifty housewives in the first half of the twentieth century. Extensive imagery and at-scale reproductions of these fabrics create an inspiring sourcebook of pattern and color--and offer a welcome visit to the days of yesteryear. No patterns included

Feedsack Secrets

Author: Gloria Nixon
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617453838
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
A quilt historian chronicles the fascinating yet untold story of feedsack quilts made in America during the Great Depression and WWII. Feedsacks weren’t meant for anything more than their name implies until hard times changed the way people looked at available resources. In the 1930s and 40s, quilters facing poverty and fabric shortages found that these cotton bags could be repurposed into something beautiful. Manufacturers capitalized on the trend by designing their bags with stylish patterns, like the iconic gingham. In Feedsack Secrets, quilt historian Gloria Nixon shares the story of the patterned feedsack with research culled from old farm periodicals, magazines and newspapers. Along the way, she reveals how women met for sack-and-snack-club fabric swaps; there were restrictions on jacket lengths, hem depths and the sweep of a skirt; and feedsack prints and bags played a part in political contests, even accurately predicting that Truman would win the 1948 presidential election.

Cotton & Thrift

Author: Marian Ann J. Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682830420
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Printed cotton sacks are currently fashionable aspects for material culture research, particularly in the costume and quilt history communities. In the second quarter of the twentieth century, these mass-produced sacks were relied upon by rural America as a valuable source of free fabric for clothing, quilts, and home d cor. This book is the catalog for the Museum of Texas Tech University's "Cotton and Thrift" exhibition, which showcases the Pat L. Nickols Cotton Sack Research Collection. The Nickols Collection includes white sacks, printed partial and whole cotton sacks, swatches of printed sacks, instructional booklets, garments, quilts, quilt tops and decorated white sacks. Combined with earlier and subsequent individual donations, the almost 6000 feed sack pieces held by the Museum of TTU make this the largest collection of feed sack materials to be assembled by an American university, and likely the largest such collection in public hands.

Dating Fabrics 2

Author: Eileen Jahnke Trestain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
From poodle skirts of the 1950s to baby doll dresses of the 1990s, the fabrics of our everyday lives are featured in this handy reference guide to the materials of the last half century. A companion to Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960, this source is ideal for those studying fashion and clothing trends from the late twentieth century, as well as collectors of recent quilts. Today's quilts may have elements of more than one decade because many quilters collect a great deal of fabric, and may draw from one group of fabric over a long period of time. The recent proliferation of reproduction fabrics has caused concern for the ability to differentiate the old from the new in reproduction quilts and repairs. An informative section on these fabrics from the 1980-2000 era provides a blueprint for building confident conclusions as to the fabric's origins. For ease in identification, prints are shown actual size and specific fabric lines and styles are grouped and sorted by date, then color. Dating divisions coincide with turning points in history which influenced attitudes and styles, and are highlighted by a brief history of each era.

Soft Covers for Hard Times

Author: Merikay Waldvogel
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
During the Great Depression, a time of widespread poverty, women managed to produce some of America's most beautiful quilts. Soft Covers for Hard Times explores matters rural and city quiltmakers had in common. 70 lavish full-color illustrations.

Utility-Style Quilts for Everyday Living

Author: Sharon Holland
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607656094
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
12 well illustrated projects, ranging from table runners to a queen-sized quilt. Great beginner book. Skill-building design tips and suggestions throughout. Teaches each technique in an unintimidating way with a focus on the quilt’s ultimate use—not on unattainable perfection. Author Sharon Holland designs fabric for Art Gallery Fabrics and founded Quilt-it...today and Sew-it...today magazines.

Cotton Bags as Consumer Packages for Farm Products

Author: Robert Joseph Cheatham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bagging
Languages : en
Pages : 12

Book Description
The use of various types of consumer packages for marketing farm products has shown that cotton bags are one of the most satisfactory containers. Cotton bags make attractive packages; they supply a suitable surface for brand names and make possible effective advertising; they are durable and little affected by moisture; the represent minimum tare weight; and they have a high salvage value.

Dust Bowl Girls

Author: Lydia Reeder
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616204664
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."

American Cotton

Author: Third Floor Quilts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578404783
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description