Home Loomed, Vintage Linen, Hungarian Grain Sack. 130 x 51cm

Medium- heavy, home-loomed vintage, Hungarian linen grain sack. Red stripes on an oatmeal background with dark wheat tones. This scak has been wshed at 40 celcius, the base colour will lighten on washing at high temperatures  

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.

The sack is one continuous piece and hand stitched at the sides, if you open it out you will have over 2 metres of lovely cloth. This grain sack has been washed and is in good condition

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.  We can provide  feather pads to fit your grain sack. Either simply tie at one end with string or rope  or for a small price we can add your choice of fastening. Please email grainsacks@parna.co.uk for details

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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