This is my first article about a decorated flour bag from WWI, written in June 2018.
The Flour Bag has been part of the collection of the Textile Research Center (TRC) in Leiden, The Netherlands, since 2017 and was a gift from Pepin van Rooijen of Pepin Press, Amsterdam.
Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, director of TRC, wrote on the occasion of the donation about the “Belgian Embroidered Flour Bags”.
You can read the English translation of my article here.
Original flour sack PEACE MAKER -1914- in the Royal Military Museum
The War Heritage Institute in Brussels holds an original flour sack PEACE MAKER, Campbell & Ottewell, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1914, in the collection of the Royal Military Museum. The cotton flour bag is in poor condition, but clearly recognizable.
The printing in red and blue colors shows the brand name ‘Peace Maker’ and the contours of the wings of the dove of peace (WHI Box 10 LOT 410 1856 to 410 1887).
Embroidered Flour Sack WHITE ROSE -1915- in Belgian private collection
Canadian mill Campbell & Ottewell, Edmonton, Alberta, also supplied bagged flour with the brand name WHITE ROSE. There is a well embroidered example in a Belgian private collection; the embroidery threads are in the Belgian colors red, yellow, black and the American colors red, white, blue; the cloth is all around finished with a lace edge.
