Name/Title
Cotton & thrift : feed sacks and the fabric of American householdsEntry/Object ID
NK8812.T4 2019Description
"Printed cotton sacks are currently fashionable aspects for material culture research, particularly in the costume and quilt history communities. In the second quarter of the twentieth century, these mass-produced sacks were relied upon by rural America as a valuable source of free fabric for clothing, quilts, and home décor. This book is the catalog for the Museum of Texas Tech University's 'Cotton and Thrift' exhibition, which showcases the Pat L. Nickols Cotton Sack Research Collection. The Nickols Collection includes white sacks, printed partial and whole cotton sacks, swatches of printed sacks, instructional booklets, garments, quilts, quilt tops and decorated white sacks. Combined with earlier and subsequent individual donations, the almost 6000 feed sack pieces held by the Museum of TTU make this the largest collection of feed sack materials to be assembled by an American university, and likely the largest such collection in public hands." -- PUBLISHERContext
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.Lexicon
Search Terms
cotton fabrics--united states, dressmaking--united states, feed sack, quilting--united statesBook Details
Author
Marian Ann J. Montgomery, Merikay WaldvogelPublisher
Texas Tech University PressDate Published
2019ISBN
9781682830420Notes
Length: 183General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Introduction -- White cotton sacks: printed details give clues to place in history -- Decoration and use of plain white sacks -- Cotton sacks and Belgium famine relief -- Instructional booklets spread fashion and quilting information -- Feed sack garments -- Quilts from feed sacks -- The wide variety of printed fabrics used for cotton sacks.