Cotton and Thrift: Feed Sacks and the Fabric of American Households

I love this book! Awesome for research and inspiration both! Highly recommend.

Impressed with this book. A thorough exploration of feed sacks in all forms and their multitude of uses. An excellent resource for anyone interested in textiles and history.

I enjoyed the part of the book that included newspaper uses for the fabric sacks. Some sacks even had sewing patterns! It was a time when there was not much money to spend on the household pretties. I didn't live then, but I know sewing took fabric. The pages of patterns of fabric available are fascinating, so many, lots of colors. Did give the farmer an unusual shopping list.

This well researched book on the (most likely) little known or appreciated topic of reusable feed sacks, is profusely illustrated. I grew up at a time when feed sacks were used in home decoration and in the creation of wearable items. Sewing things from decorative feed sack fabrics was fairly common in rural USA in the late 1940's and in the early1950's. This book brought back to me nostalgic memories of those days.

A really enjoyable read if you're interested in American textiles of the 20th century.

This is a book I've been wanting to add to my sewing library for a while.

An addition to my book collection. The book was as described and in perfect condition.

Use it for quilt research and to support this author.