WWII Flour Sack Kitchen Towels
Handwoven in Honor of the Women who Helped win the War on the Homefront
During WWII there were women like Rosie the Riveter. And there were women who stayed at home and helped win the war on the Homefront.
Eggs, butter, sugar, gasoline, flour, salt, and meat were rationed. All the wool and heavy cotton went to the soldiers. Clothes were sewn from the flour sacks. The weavers unwound the sacks and wove on their loom’s towels, tablecloths, curtains, and baby blankets.
The weavers wove mostly in Huck variations. Huck patterns are still extremely popular today because of their visual texture and lightness of feel while being very sturdy.
These towels were woven honor of the women of WWII who stayed home and made much with extraordinarily little.
They are woven with the same kind of flour sack thread and very heavy cotton in a Huck pattern. Makes them very thristy. Able to actually dry your dishes!