Quilters scour estate sales and antique shops for feedsacks, hoping to score big and find a special bag to add to their stash.
Feedsack interest faded in the 1950's as yard goods became readily available, though some feedsacks were produces as late as the 1960's in the Southwest.
Today's collectors help preserve some of the nostalgia surrounding the feedsack era when curtains, dresses, handbags, men's shirts and even bathing suits were made from brightly printed feedsacks.
In their heyday, feedsacks prompted the National Cotton Council to sponsor a feedsack wardrobe campaign. The genre was so popular that 30 million yards of printed cotton material were converted into feedsacks annually in the U.S., according to a 1944 Business Week report.
Today quilters pay as much as $15 for a single intact vintage feedsack!
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