Soviet Union and beyond · a type / Undated · photographed 2009
Avoska, the string bag
A bag that expands with need
Contemporary illustrative photograph; age and provenance of the photographed bag are not established.
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The avoska is mostly empty space until it is filled. Its net structure expands with the shopping and collapses into a pocket. The type became a small emblem of Soviet everyday life, but a type is not a biography: this 2009 photograph shows one bag whose maker and date we cannot establish. Read it beside the Dederon net in this collection. The forms are similar; the material histories and the evidence are not.
- Date
- Undated · photographed 2009
- Maker / designer
- Unknown
- Material
- Knotted cord
- Context
- A widely shared Soviet-era bag type; the photographed specimen’s origin and fibre are not established.
Evidence: Date not established · Place not established
Historical record
- The photograph is dated 2009.
- The avoska is a widely shared bag type; this individual bag’s origin and fibre are not established.
- It is not the Dederon specimen held by the DDR Museum.
