Feedsack Collection - 30915-2

All were terms used to describe the printed cloth bags which were meant to transport flour, sugar, animal feed, rice, seed, and fertilizer. As the idea of the decorative bag gained popularity in 1930"™s the companies selling the processed contents of the bags began to use the printed bags as much for advertising and promotion. As the depression increased in severity the demand among US households for these unique cloth bags became more popular.

This "śfree"ť recyclable fabric found its way into uses as varied as children"™s clothing, aprons, dresses, and underpants. It"™s estimated that by 1943 perhaps 3,000,000 households were wearing garments made from feed sacks!

Care instructions for COTTON and cotton blend fabrics. My advice - wash your fabrics before you create your wonderful project. I don't always follow my own advice as I am anxious to start my quilt, or garment right now, but it is best to pre-wash your cotton fabric. When you wash bright or dark colored clothing for the first time, you probably wash it by itself. Most of us have washed a bright colored garment with white clothing and ended up with the white garment being discolored. Pre-washing allows the excess color pigments to be released (almost all of our fabrics are "color fast", so no problem with color pigments being released in washing, but pre-washing allows your fabric to take it's natural shape prior to making your quilt, garment or decor item made of cotton fabrics. It has been suggested that you wash a sample of the cotton fabric to see if any changes will occur, (but I don't bother as all of the fabric from Beverly's fabric and crafts is of superior quality). If you do test the fabric - cut an exact size and then wash, then measure and you can see if any change to size occurred. We suggest you use a liquid, color free detergent and don't use a fabric softener, bleach or scented detergents for cotton blends or 100% cotton fabrics.