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Brian Keith
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Here is an interesting piece of WW II era fabric. I’ll post an overall and them some close ups. I put a one cent piece on it for size reference.

 

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Brian,

 

I have seen a a number of pieces of this fabric and yours is in very good (great) condition. It is sometimes identified as a table cloth and may have been used that way by some but it was sold as fabric. One commercial use of this was as a feed bag and Ill post a picture of it as a feedbag from a company called Globe Mills.

 

Jim

 

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Jim, Now that is a cool home front piece!

I unfolded mine compleatly to see if there was evidence of it ever having been a feed bag. Mine measures 34 1/2 by about 32 inches. I didn't see any, so I think mine is just a piece of fabric. I did find the name printed on the edge, "Kent's-Cloth of the United Nations-233".

Thanks for posting the sack!

BKW

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You may know this already, but feed sack cloth was often used for making homemade items:kids' clothes, quilt backings, etc. My guess is the feed company offered this fabric as a premium, kind of like the jelly jars that could be reused as drinking glasses.

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