With feed sacks and flour bags, farm women took thriftiness to new heights of creativity, transforming the humble bags into dresses, underwear, towels ... use of feed sack clothing experienced ...

House Industries developed these flour sack tea towels to fashionably alleviate such awkward moments by providing a fascinating conversational diversion to the graphic application of typographic ...

These affordable terry cloth towels aren’t cute, but they’ll get the job done, wiping up spills from big to small. Available only in white, these flour sack towels are large and thin ...

By Florence Fabricant The soft cotton that once went into making flour sacks is what the photographer Pauline Stevens has selected for her vibrant collection of kitchen towels decorated with her ...

The flour sack towels from Seattle-based Potluck Press are sturdy and super-absorbent and so handy for drying wine glasses or produce and mopping up spills ($11 to $12 for a 28-by-30-inch square).

Come learn how to use a flour sack tea towel, heat transfer vinyl, a few easy hand skills and MSU Libraries' heat press to make the perfect gift! The cost per towel and vinyl is $5.

From Dave Adamshick, Flour-sack towel Printed flour-sack towels Cooks love kitchen towels made of flour sacks because they're super absorbent and don't leave lint behind like terry towels ...

“People would upcycle the flour sacks to make clothing,” Wier says. “They would make bags, dolls, quilts, just any household need that they had, they would use the fabric from the feed sacks ...