It is very similar to the flour sack towels at W-S, but I'm looking for it
on a bolt; like you would find regular fabric in a fabric store.
Are you talking about the flour sack dish towels tha you >get at
WilliamSonoma? That are a very soft white cotton? >Or are you talking
about the flour sacks that used to be >in prints that women in the Great
Depression used to make >clothing? I would imagine that they are the same
>material, but don't know for sure.
I would suggest that you check the hand of some authentic flour sacks before
substituting. The actual fabric used to make sacks for flour is *very*
different from the pieces of white cotton sold as "flour sack towels". The
cotton sold as flour sack towels is close to the feel of the original sacks
AFTER it had been used and used and used. Towels were often the last of a
long line of things made from the fabric. Next stop was the rag bin.
The new fabric taken from a freshly emptied sack of flour has a lot more
substance to it. Much more firm and dense. Once it had been made into
curtains or clothing, then remade a time or two, then handed down a few
times, it started feeling much softer and thinner.
I'm not well versed in clothing terminology, but new flour sacking feels a
lot more like fine, dense canvas or denim than those white towels.
Denise
landofoz
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