Burlap bag

[Bulldog lady]

Need info please- found a good deal on new burlap bags- what time frame are they correct for?  Or when was burlap used?  thanks  Di

[heatherhistorian]

You can get burlap at Hancocks and make a bag. :)  Just an idea if you can't find a bag.

[Hanshi]

Burlap makes good underwear as long as you're "frontier tough". 

[sean drake]

di do not know how long they have ben around but I would think quite a long time and the coop over in blackwell is still putting feed in them or at least last time i went over to get any I would think they would fit a lot of years but that is only my wag at it
                                                         (Wilde, --- gees)

[Hanshi]

When I was young (and not so young) way, way down South we called them "croaker sacks".  Anybody still call them that?  I still do to this day.

[beowulf]

I have one from a local feed mill thats marked with the company name and the date 1885 ! so I`d be willing to bet they`ve been around a lot longer than that !

[bull frog]

Don't know how long, but I will be willing to bet a very long time........and as far as burlap under wear....I don't know how long I would last in those.

[DandJofAZ]

Back to your basic question--------1830  to present....started in Africa--to India, where most is still grown--to England in 1790's and Scotland in 1830 at the Dundee mills which turned out burlap for used world wide..Before that only hand woven cloth available from India...German Hesse soldiers uniforms in early 1800's.
Name from Indian city of Burlap??  Lots of uses for about the last 180 years in the Americas.  Cheap, strong, biodegradable.  Great stuff but not for my underwear--I like cotton..
Doug

[Hanshi]

Back in the late '50s some of the girls wore skirts made of burlap; not a fad exactly but they were around the school.

[redhawk]

Hanshi,   my father called them " croaker sacks".  I think he got it when he live on the NC coast.

[Red Badger]

OK so after 1830 - so much for that idea my persona is 1800 - 1820....

Thanks for the info though I am sure someone else can use it!

[Bulldog lady]

   Clarification please  so if for example your persona is 1800-1820    at midnight on Dec 31, 1820 do you diss-a- pers ?   Serious guys thanks for all the info  found it very interesting       If burlap or nutin only  choice for underware think have to go with the latter !!!   

[Hanshi]

Dandjofaz, I'll have to disagree with you on that "1830" date and I'm sure some of our older members can back me up.  I seem to recall using burlap/croaker sacks when I was a kid in the early 1820s.  I know they were around long before I ever saw my first percussion cap.  I remember unloading wagons for my daddy that contained vegetables packed in croaker sacks. 

[old salt]

I can not find the source but I think I read that the fur co. wrapped fur bundles in burlap, so that being said it would not take much imagination
to make a tote bag out of it. I do know that burlap is acceptable at all of
roundys I have been to.
We called them a tote sack or a gunny sack back in the 1750s when I was pup

[Hanshi]

Hey, Old Salt, did you serve in the Rev war along with my grandpa?  That would be neat!