The Golden Rule

I cannot wait to show off my newest Common Thread Vintage Designs bag. Using an original, Golden Rule Flour sack from 1946, this is the bag you want to take along for...a walk in the park...a flea market trip....a farmer's market outing...a day at the fair....it's the perfect size, the perfect weight and roomy enough for your wallet, cell phone, sunglasses, sun block lotion, camera, bottle of water etc. And the HISTORY of this bag is amazing...

(From the history of Gold Medal Flour, 1946:)

In February, Gold Medal Flour was withdrawn from the market because of the War Food Order Number 144 issued by the government. This regulation, issued to make existing supplies of wheat go further, required millers to extract 80% of the wheat kernel (68% to 72% was normally used) which produced a coarser, darker flour. The Gold Medal "Kitchen-tested" Flour trademark was not used on the new product since it did not meet the company's quality standards for the product. (Gold Medal Flour was again available in 1947 when the regulation was lifted.)

The front of the bag says:

"Golden Rule Flour. Conforms with Government Order For Emergency Flour. Igleheart Brothers Milling Company, Evansville, Indiana."

The back of the bag says:

"Under War Food Order 144, we cannot offer you Tender Flake Flour or Swans Down Flour, BUT....You can be sure of the best in emergency flours when you use Golden Rule Flour."

The bag is 8" and 12" with a zippered top. A pocket is cleverly disguised on the front of the bag. It is fully reinforced, fully lined and the cotton rope handle can be easily adjusted. You can cross it over your chest so the bag sits at your waist (no hands) or you can shorten the handle to your desired length.

The bag has great history, great graphics, great design and it's "hands-free".

Check out my website at www.commonthreadvintage.com or call me at 877-321-1930.

Patti

Who can answer this question? What exactly is "the golden rule?"

Designer’s Tribute to Her Mother is New Gift Idea for Your Mom, Wife, Girlfriend or Daughter

Handbags and Tote Bags quality-crafted by hand from vintage fabrics, quilt pieces and feedsacks, each distinct in design now available for Mother’s Day 2010

Guilford, CT— A Connecticut designer who creates one of a kind antique feedsack and vintage fabric handbags to honor women like her mother, introduces new collection, as great gift idea just in time for Mother’s Day.

Common Thread Vintage Designs handbags and tote bags tell stories of American women. Each new Common Thread Vintage Designs™ Collection is defined by the type of fabric that is used, as well as by the design of the bag itself. And each is a reflection of the life and times of real women who lived, worked, toiled, and sewed during different periods of American history.
“These designs tell stories of courage. Of overcoming hard times… Of old-fashioned ingenuity and creativity,” said designer Patti Biller in announcing the collection. “These versatile, sturdy bags are handcrafted from old quilt tops and “orphan” quilt blocks--those that were pieced together but never made into quilts--along with feedsacks—the colorful sacks that were used for more than a century to hold flour, sugar and animal feed.”

Common Thread fabrics date from as far back as the mid-1800s to those that were popular in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, during two World Wars and the Great Depression.
Each Common Thread Vintage Designs™ collection is represented by a woman…and she in turn represents thousands of other women who cut and stitched and quilted and labored to create pieces that were functional, practical and beautiful.

“But there is one woman who has a special place in the Common Thread family, because she is family.” Said Biller, a mother of four grown children. “The picture of Florrie is a 1946 photograph of Florence Zuckerman, a young woman living in New York City, on her way to work. Not long after this picture was taken, she got married and started a family.” Florence Biller, or Florrie as she's known, is designer Patti Biller’s 86-year old mother, and she resides with her daughter in Guilford, Connecticut.

The Common Thread Vintage Designs™ collection is available to browse and buy online at www.commonthreadvintage.com. The store also offers gift certificates, so the woman in your life can choose the bag and the story that speaks directly to her. Ten percent (10 %) of each Gift Certificate purchased goes to Feeding America, the nation's leading hunger relief charity making this truly the gift that gives.

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Contact: Common Thread Vintage Designs. 877-321-1930