{"id":545,"date":"2012-03-30T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/spring-bunnies-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:14:00","slug":"spring-bunnies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/spring-bunnies-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Spring Bunnies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nNearly every spring since Ian and I moved to Santa Fe the
\nfirst sign of the season is not a robin but a very small bunny, sometimes two
\nbunnies, inside the walls surrounding our front patio.  Most assuredly, they eat my flowers.  But they sure are cute!<\/div>\n
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\nThe fabric for this charming embroidery is a textile bag,
\nmore commonly known as a feedsack. 
\n\u201cFeedsack\u201d is a term used to describe the textile bags manufactured for
\nstorage and transportation of dried goods. 
\nNearly every dry product was packaged in this manner: grains and flour,
\nsugar, salt, potatoes animal feed, seeds, fertilizer, money and tobacco.  The Bemis Bag Co. of St. Louis, established
\nin 1858, was the leading textile bag producer followed by Chase Co.<\/div>\n
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\nPrior to the 1930\u2019s, textile bags were white cotton with the
\nadvertising logo of the content\u2019s producer (as well as the logo of the bag
\nmanufacturer) inked on the front of the bag. 
\nSome textile bags, such as you see here, had a pattern pre-printed on
\nthe sack for embroidery, doll making or quilt blocks.  Transfer patterns were also available by mail through women\u2019s
\nmagazines.  These embroidery patterns
\nwere easily ironed onto the white sacking and colorfully embroidered.<\/div>\n
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\nThis example shows a leaping rabbit, embroidered in variegated
\ncolored thread in a stem (or outline) stitch on the right.  Quite visible is the logo \u201cJack Rabbit Brand<\/div>\n
\n (Reg.U.S.Pat.Off.)
\nChoice Hand Picked Navy Beans\u201d.  Above
\nthe rabbit is the weight of the beans \u201c5Lbs. Net\u201d. The left side features a
\nlady rabbit, presumably the mother rabbit, washing clothes with a washboard and
\ntub.  The stitching (stem, lazy-daisy,
\nand straight stitch) was done in both variegated pastel-colored thread and
\nsolid colored.  Behind the mother is a
\nsmall bunny pulling a wagon, perhaps loaded with more laundry. Above the
\nembroidered scene is stamped \u201cTo Occupy Little Fingers\u201d with a scissors, spool
\nof thread and a needle encasing the instructions \u201cwork the design in various
\ncolor threads.  Wash in the usual
\nmanner.\u201d and signed A Chase Design.<\/div>\n
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\nFollowing WWII the paper bag industry supplanted the use of
\ntextile bags in packaging despite the efforts of The National Cotton
\nCouncil.  Although today most consumer
\ngoods are packaged in paper, there are still products available in fiber bags.<\/div>\n
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\nToday \u201cfeedsacks\u201d have become a growing collectible.  Identification numbers, names and addresses
\nof mills and bag manufacturers can be traced. 
\nThere is much history to be learned from these textiles and many stories
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\nI have written  2 CDs
\non feedsack history.  Each CD also
\nincludes hundreds of photographs of feedsack patterns as well as unusual
\ntextile bags.  For more information
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Nearly every spring since Ian and I moved to Santa Fe the first sign of the season is not a robin but a very small bunny, sometimes two bunnies, inside the walls surrounding our front patio.  Most assuredly, they eat my flowers.  But they sure are cute! The fabric for this charming embroidery is a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}