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This is a Percy Kent solid color feedsack with the pattern for a cut-out doily set printed on the back. The front of the feedsack has a printed advertisement stating, "My mama made all these things from cotton bags." Directions for removing the printing ink is also on printed on this sack.

This pillow cover is made from a single blue printed feedsack; the textile's original seaming holes are still visible in the finished pillow cover.

This Wertham Industries sack has two paper band labels still fully intact, advertising "[a] full square yard...get this pretty, colorfast fabric for aprons, for curtains, for blouses, for tablecloths, gay material for many household and clothing uses."

This is an early Bemis Brothers Bac Gompany flour sack with the logo printed directly on the sack with permanent ink. The barrel size and pounds are also printed directly on the sack with permanent ink.

This small laundry bag makes use of shoestrings to cinch the bag closed.

This patterned dressgoods feedsack has a removable paper band label still intact. Paper band labels were made easily removable so it was easier for women to render the sack into a length of fabric.