Antique Football Linen Cloth Old College & Military Pictures On Cloth

[susiecat]

I'm trying get any information on this large linen cloth with old college football pictures and military.I'm thinking maybe tobacco cloth but not sure.I've had this cloth about 15 years and haven't been able to find out anything.

[mart]

I do not think it would have been tobacco !!  But May have been for flour sacks !!  Maybe an end roll  piece !!  Looks more like cotton than linen but can`t see it close-up !!  Cotton was used for sacking material !!  I have had a few flour / feed sack dresses in my life !!

[susiecat]

Thanks Mart,I believe it's cotton.My mistake.Do you know maybe around what years.

[cogar]

I think the printed images on your cloth is not characteristic of ….. and are way too large to have been printed on (100% cotton) feed sacks. 

I'm not saying they couldn't have been printed on feed sack material, …. I'm saying that sack of feed would have been a tuff seller ….. cause wives and daughters wouldn't want it.


Printed, 100% cotton feed sacks, were specifically produced as a "sales premium" to be used by wives and daughters for making blouses, skirts, dresses, curtains, etc.

[mart]

Come to think of it,, most were small flowery print fabrics but I did see some yesterday when looking that were larger prints !!  These were used until the fifties that I remember !!
Might check to see when the logo`s were used !!  That might give a pretty close date !!  This fabric may have been a simple cotton fabric for boys pillow cases !!  Back then everyone usually made their own stuff like that !!  Or at least my family did and many others I knew !!  Women always had  a sewing machine but didn`t always have a lot of money to buy things like that !!

[susiecat]

Thanks Cogar! I do remember staying in Arkansas as a child and my aunt and grandmother made dresses out of feed sacks,also pieces were put together with our quilts.I've never came across one like this one.I'm not sure what it is.

[susiecat]

Mart I don't think this is 1950's,the football players look are like the ones in an old college yearbook from 1920's or earlier

[cogar]

"Yup", …. Susiecat,...… I'm all too familiar with "pieces" of printed feed-sack material being used as quilt pieces.

My wife, Violet, decided she was going to "piece" (meaning sew together) a quilt top called …….. "999 Tumblers".

The following picture is of a “Twin Tumbler Quilt”, ….. which is different.

And the 2nd pic is just a closeup of the "tumbler" shape.

And the difference is, ……. there is 999 different pieces of material in the former, …….. either a different print or a different colored print.

"HA", there were lots of feed sacks that had a corner cut off of them before that were sold to collectors, etc. 


 

[ghopper1924]

Dang, that is one beautiful quilt. Kudos to Violet for all that work.

I've never seen one quite like it.

[susiecat]

cogar that's so beautiful! in our church years ago our church mother made quilts by hand an gave them to the members,wish I had kept my quilt

[cogar]

ghopper1924, ….. susiecat, ….. you misunderstood what I was writing.

The posted pictures ARE NOT of ….. Violet’s "999 Tumblers" quilt top. I uploaded those 2 pictures off the Internet via “DuckDuckGo”.

Violet’s “Tumbler” quilt, IMO, is really spectacular, …..

and looking at it will sorta “drive ya crazy”,……

because ya wanna keep looking for to find 2 pieces of material that are the same pattern and color.   

Iffen I had a picture I would have posted it.

Now Violet has another “special” quilt that she probably cherishes the most.

She bought a pieced “quilt top” at auction long, long time back, cost her $100 for it, …… which utterly flaggergasted me. 

Anyway, she ask her mother to quilt it for her. (her mother was an expert quilter)

Violet entered that quilt in the .... West Virginia Division of Culture and History (WVDCH) Quilts and Wall Hangings Juried Exhibition ..... which is held every year at the State Capital in Charleston. Read more @ http://www.wvculture.org/news.aspx?Agency=Division&Id=3186

Anyway, anyway, Grandma’s quilt won 2nd Place ….. and hung on display in the Capital Rotunda for the next 6 months to be seen by all.

The Judges said Grandma's quilt would have won 1st Place .... except the 2-piece "backing" on it was a little off-center. (It takes 2 white cotton sheets to make the "back" of a full size quilt) 1 sheet is not wide enough.

[cogar]

OOOPS, …… my memory failed me badly.

Violet’s quilt is called ….. “999 Tumblers”, …….. not 101 Tumblers.


And i modified the other 2 posts to correct them.
 
 Violet had to dig it out and showed it to me and it is  27 x 37 individual pieces of cloth.

[susiecat]

Oh ok,yep I throught that was the quilt

[mart]

My Grandmother for years had a quilting frame hanging from the ceiling in the unused bedroom !!  Anyone that has the patience to quilt is a star in my book !!

[mart]

Mart I don't think this is 1950's,the football players look are like the ones in an old college yearbook from 1920's or earlier

No,, I meant that printed flour and feed sacks were used until the fifties that I remember !!  These are the padded leather helmets used late  20`s and  30`s !!  College football did not require helmets until 1939 and the NFL in 1943 !! Since all I saw on the fabric had helmets my guess would be that it is from between 1939 and 43 !!