Anyone remembers the time when powder detergents were sold in cotton bags?
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mickeyd
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With all the colored balloons. It would be easier to stuff the bags into drawers and spaces that are too small for inflexible cardboard. So convenient and easy to carry over the shoulder.
We once had Breeze detergent that came in boxes with dish towels inside. Long gone.
With all the colored balloons. It would be easier to stuff the bags into drawers and spaces that are too small for inflexible cardboard. So convenient and easy to carry over the shoulder.
We once had Breeze detergent that came in boxes with dish towels inside. Long gone.
Mikey
didn't Fab have towels packed inside at one time? Or was that just glassware??
Ingmar, neat collection of detergent bags, so colorful!! Thanks for sharing!
jetcone
didn't Fab have towels packed inside at one time? Or was that just glassware??
Ingmar, neat collection of detergent bags, so colorful!! Thanks for sharing!
jetcone
I remember large sacks of flour with a towel stitched onto the bottom seam. They would be cascading down over each other on the bottom shelf in the grocery store. When my mother was growing up, you could not buy bread in the store so it was baked at home and flour was bought in 50# sacks so the sacks were used to make clothes: underwear, and dresses mostly.
danemodsandy
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Has been around for a long time, and with all sorts of consumer goods.
My "company" flatware and china - now considered rather nice - were originally giveaways or piece-with-purchase items. The flatware, Oneida's Queen Bess, was a Betty Crocker giveaway. I have a complete service for 8 in the pattern, 126 pieces, including all the rare stuff like orange spoons, demitasse spoons, etc. This is a silverplate pattern, and while the body is a little lightweight, the plating is first-class, including a heavier-plated reinforced area at the heel area of spoons and forks.
The china, Royal China's Currier and Ives, was a piece-with-purchase promotion for A & P. You remember - buy ten bucks' worth of groceries, get a dinner plate for 19 cents.
They used to give some very nice stuff away as an enticement to buy.
Has been around for a long time, and with all sorts of consumer goods.
My "company" flatware and china - now considered rather nice - were originally giveaways or piece-with-purchase items. The flatware, Oneida's Queen Bess, was a Betty Crocker giveaway. I have a complete service for 8 in the pattern, 126 pieces, including all the rare stuff like orange spoons, demitasse spoons, etc. This is a silverplate pattern, and while the body is a little lightweight, the plating is first-class, including a heavier-plated reinforced area at the heel area of spoons and forks.
The china, Royal China's Currier and Ives, was a piece-with-purchase promotion for A & P. You remember - buy ten bucks' worth of groceries, get a dinner plate for 19 cents.
They used to give some very nice stuff away as an enticement to buy.
Thank you jetcone.
@ dixan: as far as I know the detergent was sold only in the linen bag alone, no plastic bag inside. It is a bit strange but so it was. Inside the bag it was a small slip of paper (cardbord) with the dosing instructions.
But they were also on sale cilindric or rectangular cardbord boxes of detergent. But especcialy in a given period of time the linen bags were much more popular.
@ dixan: as far as I know the detergent was sold only in the linen bag alone, no plastic bag inside. It is a bit strange but so it was. Inside the bag it was a small slip of paper (cardbord) with the dosing instructions.
But they were also on sale cilindric or rectangular cardbord boxes of detergent. But especcialy in a given period of time the linen bags were much more popular.
Flour, Sugar, Grain, Feed, etc.. Sack Cloth
Was very popular with rural/farm housewives, especially if the family didn't have much. Those sacks would be taken apart and the cloth used to run up everything from undergarments to clothing. Those who remember such things often say they would kill to find such fabric today. Sadly when the mills what produced such textiles shut down, the equipment was either sold off overseas or simply left to rot inside the shuttered buildings.
Many vintage laundry/housekeeping manuals in my stash give directions for "bleaching" sack fabric to remove the lettering/printing thus make the cloth better suited for clothing.
Was very popular with rural/farm housewives, especially if the family didn't have much. Those sacks would be taken apart and the cloth used to run up everything from undergarments to clothing. Those who remember such things often say they would kill to find such fabric today. Sadly when the mills what produced such textiles shut down, the equipment was either sold off overseas or simply left to rot inside the shuttered buildings.
Many vintage laundry/housekeeping manuals in my stash give directions for "bleaching" sack fabric to remove the lettering/printing thus make the cloth better suited for clothing.
Wouldn't "Bleaching" to get rid of the printing or patterns weaken the fabric so it couldn't be used for clothes and such?I guess other packaging matrials replaced the sackcloth-the bag cloth would be more expensive than paper,plastic bags and such.
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But IIRC chlorine bleach/Javelle water wasn't one of the methods, though could be wrong.
There isn't anything wrong per se with chlorine bleaching of cotton materials, after all that his how "unbleached" cottons goods get to white (usually). It is just the repeated exposure and failure to rinse properly and neutralise any remaining traces of chlorine bleach that causes the problems.
But IIRC chlorine bleach/Javelle water wasn't one of the methods, though could be wrong.
There isn't anything wrong per se with chlorine bleaching of cotton materials, after all that his how "unbleached" cottons goods get to white (usually). It is just the repeated exposure and failure to rinse properly and neutralise any remaining traces of chlorine bleach that causes the problems.
