help me identify vintage fabric type, please!
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help me identify vintage fabric type, please!
I recently bought a vintage quilt top. The stars are all sack cloth or dress cloth, but I can't figure out what they are appliqued onto. It looks like unbleached muslin, but it is heavier and has a little stiffness to it. Also, any ideas on what I could used to back this with? I'm sort of new to all this. my grandmother quilts and sews. I have dabbled in and around fabric and sewing all my life, but am getting more and more interested as I get older.
Thanks for any help y'all can offer.
Thanks for any help y'all can offer.
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Photos of quilt top in question
[ATTACH=CONFIG]307102[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]307103[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]307101[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]307104[/ATTACH]
I should have thought to post these with the original post....d'oh!
I should have thought to post these with the original post....d'oh!
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feed sack fabric was often combined with dressmaking fabric for these types of quilts. There also appeared to be a variety of muslin type fabrics. You might post your question on the site for The Feedsack Club for indentification of the background fabric. I have some of these old tops and often there was differences in quality and type of background fabric. White feedsacks were sometime used as well. There are many interesting stories of folks being taken when their father bought grain and feed to choose the printed sacks for their next dress or other garments.
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The thick fabric looks like it could be flour sacks, they were the same size as feed sacks only thicker and denser, about the same as unbleached muslin. Some called them milk sacks also. I reconize a lot of the top as feed sacks early 40's to early 60's and some of it is old dress fabric. One of my Grandmothers' quilts I have has several of your same fabs in it. Beautiful quilt top.
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