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

Over 500 color photographs present colorfully-printed cloth feed and food sacks. Treasured for their fabulous patterns, and for the memories of a simpler time w

Printed cotton sacks are currently fashionable aspects for material culture research, particularly in the costume and quilt history communities. In the second q

Feedsacks, flour sacks, and sugar sacks have been popular for creating quilts, garments and sewn household items from the 1800s through the 1960s. Made of stron

Edie McGinnis explores the history of feed sacks, discusses their importance in times of need and war, and displays more than 600 examples of feedsack prints. B