flour sacks
Mill product packaging
Flour sacks are large bags used to hold flour, traditionally made of cotton or linen.
During the Great Depression, manufacturers began printing fabric sacks with colorful patterns, knowing thrifty families would repurpose them into clothing and household items.
She made dresses from flour sacks.
The term sometimes evokes rural poverty or resourcefulness from that era.
- burlapCoarse woven fiber
- grain elevatorTall crop storage facility
- millGrain-crushing facility
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- fabricWoven or knit material
bag · pantry · kitchen · baking · dusty · coarse · weave · feedbag · gunny · muslin · homestead · apron · dress · quilt · stitching · stencil · brand · storage
- hunger relieffood aid, famine relief, emergency food, hunger relief, food drops
- general storecounter, cash register, ledger, cracker barrel, checkerboard
- Pioneer TrailsOregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Mormon Trail, covered wagons, wagon trains
- bulk buysvalue pack, family pack, economy pack, variety pack, combo pack
- flexible packagingplastic bags, pouches, food pouches, zip bags, cling wrap
- flour millinggrinding, millstones, grain mills, gristmills, grist mills