Tag: fabric

How Resourceful Depression-Era Women Made Chicken Feedsacks Into a Fashion Statement

Farm and dry goods—such as oats, chicken feed, agricultural seed, flour, sugar, cornmeal, salt, dried beans, etc.—were typically bagged in generically-named feedsacks from the late 1800s through the 1950s. These feedsacks were sometimes called “chicken linen,” a country twist name that combined a common feedsacked product, chicken feed, with a generic household term, linen. During…


CCP Virus Strain Survives on Fabrics for About 3 Days, Study Finds

A new study in the UK has found viruses similar to the strain of the CCP virus that causes the disease COVID-19 can survive on several common fabrics used in the health industry and transmit to other surfaces. “When the pandemic first started, there was very little understanding of how long coronavirus could survive on…