June 1944. The month American forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. That is the date stamped on this flour sack by The Sherlock Baking Company, Toledo, Ohio. Wartime flour rationing was in full effect. Bakeries were working with government-allocated supplies, adjusting recipes, printing dates on their sacks to track inventory.
The red text reading Barryton Co-Op Feeds visible on the front panel is printed on the inside of this sack. The Sherlock Baking Company turned a used feed cooperative sack inside out and refilled it with flour. Two separate businesses, Two uses. One piece of cotton. Wartime made nothing disposable.
The staining is a direct physical record of that. A Toledo bakery, wartime, flour moving through rationed hands. It is not damage. It is documentation. This one survived.
+ size: M-L (S Oversized)
+made with: The Sherlock Baking Company flour sack / previously used as Barryton Co-Op Feed sack / 100% cotton / Toledo, Ohio | Mecosta County, Michigan / June 1944
+ sewn: on 2/2-3/26 in Missoula, MT over 10 hours
FYI:
+ best cared for by hand • machine wash cold on gentle cycle if needed +
+ made from vintage materials • slight imperfections add to its story +
+ made in montana
June 1944. The month American forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. That is the date stamped on this flour sack by The Sherlock Baking Company, Toledo, Ohio. Wartime flour rationing was in full effect. Bakeries were working with government-allocated supplies, adjusting recipes, printing dates on their sacks to track inventory.
The red text reading Barryton Co-Op Feeds visible on the front panel is printed on the inside of this sack. The Sherlock Baking Company turned a used feed cooperative sack inside out and refilled it with flour. Two separate businesses, Two uses. One piece of cotton. Wartime made nothing disposable.
The staining is a direct physical record of that. A Toledo bakery, wartime, flour moving through rationed hands. It is not damage. It is documentation. This one survived.
+ size: M-L (S Oversized)
+made with: The Sherlock Baking Company flour sack / previously used as Barryton Co-Op Feed sack / 100% cotton / Toledo, Ohio | Mecosta County, Michigan / June 1944
+ sewn: on 2/2-3/26 in Missoula, MT over 10 hours
FYI:
+ best cared for by hand • machine wash cold on gentle cycle if needed +
+ made from vintage materials • slight imperfections add to its story +
+ made in montana
