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The term “Flour Sack Towel” comes from a towel made from fabric that is used as packaging to hold flour.

Majority of the US population lived outside the city before world war two. This meant they did not have the convenience of retail stores; cities had bakeries, meat markets, and general mercantile stores. Either you baked your own bread to save money or going to the store every few days was not a good option. Generally most flour mills sold the flour in larger quantity than the 5 and 10 pound sizes we see now in stores. The best packaging was a sacking cloth made of 100% cotton. A sacking cloth is different than a linen material with a fairly tight weave or a muslin with a more loose weave. Linen can tear, if you are tossing bags of flour around in the warehouse, in bags of linen you could spill your flour. And muslin does not hold the flour as well as the tight weave of a sacking material.
Flour sack material is made in a different process than other materials. Most people think flour sacks are made from bolts of fabric like you see at fabric stores.The problem is you will not get as tight of a weave if you make your flour sack bags this way. A true flour sack towel is cut and hemmed when the fabric is still in its raw state. After the raw material is cut and sewn it then goes on to be finished into a flour sacking material. Manufacturing the towel in this order produces a more uniform and tighter weave towel. You can tell a quality flour sack towel a couple ways. One is hold it up to a light or window, you should only see vague light and not much more through the towel. If you can see the outline of the window and more, you have a very thin flour sack towel. The other way, a true flour sack towel will not have a sheen or a finish to it. It should have a flat cotton look to it. A true flour sack will be off white, some have a yellow tinge to them. A quality flour sack towel will have some weight to it. Some flour sack towels have a uniform edge and some do not. Some are hemmed on four sides and some on two sides. The hemming should not be a issue if you are going to use the towel in the kitchen. If you plan on putting embroidery on the towel you might want to consider a towel with hems on four sides. There is one more advantage to a flour sack towel. You cannot find a more earth friendly product. Not only is the cotton 100% natural, if you do throw it away it will decompose. Flour sack towels are a inexpensive way to dry dishes, use as napkins, and many other uses. Next time you see flour sack towels at your grocery store or online pick some up and try them yourself.

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Is that correct? Naming a business is no big deal. Start with the term ” Hands Down” this term comes from English horse racing in the 1800’s. The jockey, if he was way ahead and sure to win, would loosen up on the reins and ride the last bit before winning with his “hands down”. That is a good metaphor for naming a business. I think it is easy to link this to naming a business, as just another task when starting a business. Or naming a business is easy like in the movies, name it and they will come. I think there is a couple things to ponder. One is you do not know how long you will be in business. It might be a really long time or one day you could cash in the chips and and say you had enough. The problem with the long time is your business might change, you might start out selling socks next thing you change to collectible rocks. Most business evolve and change as they get there footing find there niche and as markets change. Lazy-boy started out making furniture and one day when the owner stopped at a furniture store the owner told him you should make a chair a certain style and it would sell, and the rest is history. He probably thought he would be making table and chairs, not a household name for reclining chairs. Personally I really like the name Toys R Us or something branded to what you do, Socks R Us, or Cookie Superstore. The problem is if people decide sandals are cool and no need for socks you could have some lean years until the market changes. Look at waterbeds, the companies that were “Waterbed World” are gone, but the owners that named there store “Bedrooms and More” they are still around. You are going to have money in setting up your legal name, printing and other cost. Plus years of developing a market. If you need to change your name midstream its going to be expense and cost you money and time.

The next thought is Ok, if I do go generic so I can change as the market changes what do I name my business.  Once upon a time, companies named themselves after there town, Pontiac cars, Rochester carburetors,  Tecumseh engines. This type of name might be kinda of manly, but consider it. Also consider looking at a map for names, there is Sun Prairie Wisconsin, name your company “Sun Prairie”, or Tekonsha Michigan, name your business “Tekonsha”. 50 states there is a lot of ideas to look over. Be creative and take your time. Remember you can do a LLC in one name and a DBA (Doing business As) in another name. To sum it up I do not think its easy as “Hands Down”, I think you should take your time and maybe make it the last thing you do before you open the doors.

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Screen printing on flour sack towels or napkins. This is a great way to make your wedding unique. You can put your personal touch who you are as a couple in both color and design. If you like the outdoors, put trees or mountains on the napkin. If you like horses use a western theme. Motorcycle’s put that on there. The design does not have to be real elaborate. The best way is; if you know somebody that can draw. Have them draw your design on a regular white piece of paper. We have found through experience that a 4 to 6 inch print is the best. Do not worry about that when you draw your design we can bring it up or down in size. I would keep it one to two color. Three tops. We use a PMS or CMYK color system. You can Google that and find the exact color you want and give us the numbers. Otherwise we can get close to what you give us. Then scan the image and save it with a free program call “PrimoPDF”, email us the PDF and the quantity you want. In about 2 to 3 weeks we will have your towels printed and ready to ship. Our website has pricing and examples. Flour sack towels are not the only towel that is good for this. We also have birds eye towels and linen napkins. Weddings are not the only reason to print on a napkin. We have printed for anniversary dinners for families and business. There are so many events we have printed for its hard to list all of them. If you have any questions email or call we will gladly help.

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