How to Find Flour Sold in Cloth Flour Sacks

Remember when flour came in cloth flour sacks? Women made clothing for themselves and their families from this printed cotton fabric. These flour sacks full of flour are still available for sale in some grocery stores.

Here's how to find cloth flour sacks.

Things You'll Need

• grocery store that sells flour packaged in cloth sacks

Instructions

1. Recently I saw two brands of flour in cotton cloth sacks on the bottom shelf under the paper bags of flour at a Safeway store in Phoenix. The cloth bags contained 20 and 25 pounds of flour. That's enough for a couple loaves of bread and a batch of cookies or two!

2. Lapina sells flour in charming flowered print cloth sacks. Flowered flour sacks... I couldn't resist!

3. Cortez Milling Company sells Blue Bird flour in white cloth bags printed with a blue bird on the front. Check the Resources section below for a direct link to their website.

4. Cloth flour sacks can be fashioned into one-of-a-kind towels, pillows, clothing, or other crafted items.

5. Look for flour sold in cloth flour sacks on the bottom shelf at your grocery store. If you don't see flour for sale in cloth sacks, ask the store manager if they can order flour in cloth flour sacks.

Tips & Warnings

• Use cloth flour sacks to create homemade treasures to wear or to decorate your home.

• Be persistent. Ask your grocer to carry flour in cloth sacks.

Resources

• Cortez Milling Company