Hand Woven Vintage Linen Grain Sack. 118 x 54cm

Home woven  vintage grain sack.   Medium heavy weight , rustic, slubby.   Pale, porridge toned oatmeal with deep blue and red stripes and CSE monogram

This fabric was painstakingly home loomed and has a lovely home woven quality.Hungarian linen is world renowned  and highly sought after for its quality.

Uses

These grain sacks have many uses from upholstery, to bath mats , blinds, laundry bags, table runners, bolster cushions… the list goes on.

Grain sack bench and floor cushion

Vintage  grain sacks make fantastic floor or bench cushions. 

Vintage grain sacks come in a variety of weaves and stripe colours.  The stripe indictaed to the mill the owner of the sack, ensuring that the milled grain when back to the correct owner. Some of these sack also have beautiful hand embrodiered monograms. It seems incredible to us now that such work went into creating  such an item.

These sacks have been  hand woven, mostly from home spun vintage linen hemp. Hemp  softens and lightens with age and washing. These sacks date from the early 1900s to about 1940.  The cloth is fantastic and  the sacks are full of character. 

Care

Vintage grain sacks  are very strong , they were after all, made to carry heavy grain. They can be machine washed.

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