Book Review: Feed Sacks

 If you only read one book on feed sacks and their place in the history of American fashion, sustainability, the garment trade vs. domestic sewing, etc., this should be that book.

I'm in the midst of a deep dive into feed sack fabric (and particularly its place in quilting from a historical perspective) so I've been reading several books in this area and this title is exhaustively thorough. McCray delves into cotton sacks as packaging for various dry goods transformed into a reusable textile for thrift and how they leveraged that into a marketing strategy, how sacks were used in domestic sewing from garments to home goods to children's dolls and beyond.

The book is printed with full color photography throughout with hundreds of prints, labels/logos, and historical illustrations/photography from periodicals and flyers about reuse of the sacks in various applications.

Highly recommend!