In April 2021, the History All Day Facebook page posted a viral meme that described the practice, popular in the first half of the 20th century, of producing flour sacks imprinted with floral ...

I’d heard of these flour sacks but, in 15 years as an appraiser, I’d never seen one. In the early days of World War I ... of Belgians to produce clothing, pillows and bags from the material.

Women made garments out of the leftover sacks, and companies noticed. By 1925, at least one company, Gingham Girl flour ... fabric-starved years of World War II and into the early 1960s.

In what one milling company called “A Bag of Tricks,” feed, flour and sugar sacks during the Great Depression and World War II eras provided ... suitable for dresses. Some manufacturers ...

“It took three feed sacks to make ... Depression and World War II and chuckles a bit observing the current mini-panic over toilet paper. “We had a hard time getting flour, sugar, coffee ...