Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!
After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!
Feed Sacks, Flour Sacks- Frugal Fabrics
In the late 1800's feed sacks, flour sacks and, sugar sacks replaced barrels for packing feed and flour and sugar. Since our ancestors had to be frugal to survive the sacks were used to make many necessity items such as quilt blocks, aprons, house dresses and even underwear- for both men and women.
The fabric of these sacks were sometimes called "chicken linen" as chicken feed often came in this type of sack. The size of the sacks varied greatly from 5 lb bags to bags that were 5 or more feet long for picking cotton.
Many types of homemade solutions were used to try to remove the advertising labels from these sacks without much success- eventually most people stopped trying to remove the labels and used them as they were.
Feed sacks were still in limited use as late as the 1950's- today they are highly collectible.
Photos courtesy of Fabrics.net
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