I remember back in my youth in the 40s and 50s when cattle , poultry and hog feed used to come in sacks made of cotton with designer prints on the cotton sacks.
People that bought feed in these sacks use to take out the hem stitching in the sack to use the material. I would say there was a yard or so of material in the sack.
The material was then used to make clothing with this material back when people made their own clothes. 
In the 60s I use to buy a mag called   "mother earth News". That had a lot of useful info in it too. It is still around as I just pulled it up on the net to long ago.