Historian Sarah Bliss Wright to visit Irondale Library
| | | Thursday, October 3 6:00 pm | | | Historian Sarah Bliss Wright will trace the evolution of cotton bags from a rural-household convenience, to a Depression Era necessity, to a wartime way of life, to an urban re-purposing fad. Feedsack quilts represent the artistic expression of American women in a distinctive textile era, 1930‒1960, when such bed coverings were created from colorful, patterned fabrics that started out as feed or flour sacks. Many of these textile bags were made with Alabama cotton. Bemis Bro. Bag Company, the largest textile bag manufacturer in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, operated a cotton mill and bag plant in Bemiston, Alabama.
Irondale Public Library 105 20th Street South, Irondale, AL 35210 205-951-1415 IrondaleLibrary.org
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