American Feed Sacks

[@choppersworld5094]

i’m not american but this idea needs to come back.

[@beverlyethridge5084]

We picked cotton too. Not just the slaves. I also wore cotton sack dresses.

[@pamparker4047]

I have met older people that picked cotton also

[@wyominghome4857]

I too found her linking it to slavery rather odd since her narration indicates the flour sack prints came into vogue in the 1920s and 1930s, which was 50-plus years after emancipation. My great aunts all talked about picking cotton in east Texas in the early 20th century. My older sisters wore flour sack dresses in the 1940s. Must we constantly rub slavery in the faces of black Americans, like it's their only part of American history?

[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

She’s a liberal democrat. I looked her up and if you read her bio… yeah. Even in Oprah magazine. She “must be politically correct, you know”.

[@newtkincaid5661]

​​@@wyominghome4857she said shipping things in cotton sacks coincided with the 1840s invention of the sewing machine. Cotton was cheap at that time because of slave labor. I wish people wouldn't get in their feelings all the time when people talk about history instead of just listening and learning. The patterned DRESSES are from the 1920s, 30s, 40s etc, but the original cotton SACKS date back to slavery times and were cheap to use because cotton was cheap because of free slave labor.

[@wyominghome4857]

@@newtkincaid5661 No feelings. My sisters and aunts fondly remember the flower prints on the flour sacks. Flour sack dresses were a staple for poor people, especially during the Depression.

[@Sara_London]

I think you had a very informative presentation. I'm sorry everyone is so sensitive these days. It's a ridiculous, you can't even present a history lesson on fabric with out someone complaining about it! It's part of history.... Nice video!

[@Baddscorpio]

SYDAU hawnkey

[@wyominghome4857]

All people are pointing out is that her dates seem to be wrong. That's not history.

[@BradKandyCroftFamily]

I love to think of the marketing that prints on the fabric really were. If I went to get some flour and knew I needed to make my little boy a shirt I would definitely pick the flour according to the print. Even if it cost a little more, because the extra is what the cost of the shirt really was (I doubt it was a whole lot more because they still had to stay competitively priced). It saved me time and money. Now my boy got the shirt he needed, I didn't have to shop for cloth, and I didn't have to spend extra on fabric or a premade shirt, plus the company made a sale they might not have otherwise. Win, Win.

[@matsao1313]

We need to bring this kind of re-use, recycling back instead of letting our throw-away culture create bigger and bigger landfills.

[@kenyonbissett3512]

Yes, and some people do, just not enough on a national level. Even today feed sacks are made into bags for shopping.

[@mickhodge5826]

I have old feed sacks from my Grandfather. One has Tom Sawyer on it. I was curious if it is worth money.

[@lynnlegault9297]

Wonderful that so many survived

[@kenyonbissett3512]

I imagine you might inherit your mom, grandma or great aunts old feed sack fabric pieces that you would treasure and turn into quilts knowing where each piece came from.

[@juliesmith7669]

So nice presentation

[@doriemckay6935]

When did they quit making them? I love them.

[@rosestewart1606]

when paper became cheaper than cotton. Even flour for bakeries and large kitchens comes in paper sacks now. In Canada it continued until well after the war because cloth was rationed. But then that gets into the issue of how expensive paper used to be. My mother grew up wearing flour sack dresses and using a slate in school. She only had one little scribbler for each year in school and not until about grade 4

[@ulexite-tv]

We were still buying flour in feed sacks and making clothes from them in the 1970s.

[@thebluedot4728]

@@ulexite-tv the linzee lady said it stopped in the 1960s she should be careful with misinformation if she doesnt know the whole story

[@dawnelder9046]

I remember my mother talking about using feed sacks for clothing. Plain ones were used for underwear.

[@fortysomethingbadgirls2173]

Thank you for sharing

[@darlenehillery6574]

I sell sack fabrics on eBay every quilter loves them

[@karenrichardson8918]

i remember going with my aunt to pick out feed sacks at the co-op in the 1960s. My Mom made dresses for my sister and me out of feed sacks. I have some feed sacks still. Would love to make a quilt out of them for my 88 year old daddy. Do these need special care? Do they dry rot when kept in a house for years?

[@thebluedot4728]

thats what ive been waiting to see... a picture of someone working at the feedsack place with the bags filled

[@aproverbshome173]

I'm of Puerto Rican and French decent. Born in America. I love these dresses. Yes slavery is part of History but thank God there are no more slaves! We can learn from our past.

[@kenyonbissett3512]

I wish that were true. We just call it something different now. (S*x Trafficking)

[@Baddscorpio]

SYDAU

[@madeleinerose7090]

The ‘slaves’ are just called ‘sweat shop labourers’ now. Or prison labour. Or sex trafficking. There is still plenty of ’slavery’, unfortunately. 😔

[@johnettehaines6291]

I am sorry for the sticky comments you got. Sure l was not even born around that time but l grew up knowing about it and saw how they where treated afterwards. I don't agree with it. But it is history and that is what your giving here. Love the prints and would love to get my hands on a few of them. Just kept up with what your doing the good comments will out weigh the bad ones.

[@step7274]

Giving Ry Cooder credit for opening music.

[@karenkaren9526]

Well done

[@kobaltocr6927]

Que bonito 💚

[@robertshows5100]

Wives would. go to stores with their husbands to pick out a certain color or print from those available.

[@justme8108]

I wonder if the Europeans did this, also.

[@seraramoahi4552]

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[@oldtimeway1]

I really think it was poor for you to make a link to cotton and slavery to the printed sacks that were made for flour and feed and hit their height of popularity during the dirty thirties which is a full sixty to seventy years after emancipation. Research, I agree with the comment previously made by oldchickenlady.

[@wennw2711]

oldtimeway1 it is not completely wrong. Though they are not technically called slaves, most if not all the cotton farms employed African American to grow and harvest cotton , which is linked to the history of slavery and plantations. Have a look at this video in the 30s kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnWyZqJ7n7l4f5I

[@rosestewart1606]

and flour sack clothing was made outside the US...cotton had always been the fabric of choice for the lower classes because it was durable. It was just cheaper in the US. Until the late 20th century with the development of synthetic fabrics almost all clothing for the lower classes was made from cotton or wool. I think her biggest mistake was the assumption that cotton was only produced and used in the US.

[@kenyonbissett3512]

@@rosestewart1606 I think her focus was on the USAs use of cotton fabric bags and the development and use of cotton and then bags and then household use.

[@fuzzytheduck]

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[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

She’s a liberal democrat. I looked her up and if you read her bio… yeah. Even in Oprah magazine. She “must be politically correct, you know”.

[@oldchickenlady]

I don't think you did any research on your presentation. Your "facts" at the beginning of your presentation are so far off.

[@wyominghome4857]

Yes. She seems to have her dates off by about 50 years.

[@zappawench6048]

I don't think the word "perfect" should be used in the same sentence as the word "slavery".

[@Baddscorpio]

She's yt.

[@annesummers09]

So petty you are.

[@pamparker4047]

She was just telling it as WAS she wasn’t trying to be offensive

[@wyominghome4857]

@@pamparker4047 She didn't substantiate the link to slavery. If slavery made cotton "cheap" well it was still cheap in the 1930s during the Depression when my family members picked it in east Texas. They were paid by the sack. A lot of poor people picked cotton.

[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

She’s a liberal democrat. I looked her up and if you read her bio… yeah. Even in Oprah magazine. She “must be politically correct, you know”.