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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The aesthetic tastes and current events of the times yet resonate with modern textile designers who reproduce their compositions or give them a 21st-century twist. In my first encounter with feed sacks it was those visuals that drew me in. But that appeal was soon superseded by the story behind the bags the story of women who saw the possibilities in what was before them- cotton sacks previously filled with fertilizer and feed and printed with logos of silos shuckers and sheep-and transformed them into items of warmth and beauty. It is unlikely that those who first turned stiff cotton bags into aprons diapers handkerchiefs and dish towels would have (MP)