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Feedsack Secrets
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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,…
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  • Year: 2020
  • Pages: 147
  • ISBN: 9781617453830
  • ISBN-10: 1617453838
  • ISBN-13: 9781617453830
  • Format: ePub
  • Language: English

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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.
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  • Author: Gloria Nixon
  • Publisher:
  • Year: 2020
  • Pages: 147
  • ISBN: 9781617453830
  • ISBN-10: 1617453838
  • ISBN-13: 9781617453830
  • Format: ePub
  • Language: English English

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.

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