My mother taught me how to sew when I was 10 years old. I wanted something fun and creative to fill my summer days. So, I learned how to thread needles and loop crochet hooks. Since then, fabric has ...

In the early part of the 20th century all kinds of necessary products were sold in cotton sacks. Flour, rice, seeds, sugar, cornmeal and resourceful women who lived on farms made use of that fabric.

Images courtesy of Selina Sanders, 3 Women, Psychic Outlaw, Chopova Lowena and Getty Images; Collage by Maridelis Morales Rosado for W Magazine. Upcycling is no longer just a trend—the idea of reuse ...

MANHATTAN, Kan.–K-State’s Beach Museum of Art is featuring the history of feed sacks and revealing that there were many uses for them other than just holding food. New uses for “feed sacks” really ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A 12-year-old girl near Bucklin recently started a creative endeavor that’s evolved into a successful business. Larrah Feikert makes reusable shopping bags out of old animal ...

In what one milling company called “A Bag of Tricks,” feed, flour and sugar sacks during the Great Depression and World War II eras provided a frugal option for fabric. “Thrift Style,” a traveling ...

Flour and feed were once sold in heavy wooden barrels. By the early 20th century, mills swapped barrels for cotton sacks because they were cheaper and easier to transport. That practical shift is ...

An exhibit at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery, "Thrift Style," explores the reuse of feed sacks to make clothing and other household objects and illuminates how the ...