East Germany / GDR period · object undated
Dederon shopping net
A bag made mostly of air
A Dederon bag photographed in 2022. This is a different specimen from the DDR Museum object record, and its manufacture date is not established.
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A shopping net holds its contents with a remarkably small amount of material. The DDR Museum records this example as a polyamide fibre product known as Dederon, a name assembled from DDR and the ending on. Its open mesh makes the groceries visible and its empty form almost disappears. Rather than treating it as the invention or exclusive property of one political system, this entry follows a particular East German material and name. The museum record gives no production date; it belongs in the undated group.
- Date
- GDR period · object undated
- Maker / designer
- Maker unrecorded
- Material
- Dederon polyamide fibre
- Context
- An example from an East German collection; shopping nets have a much wider international history.
Evidence: Date not established · Place recorded at country level
Historical record
- The collection identifies the material as polyamide fibre, called Dederon.
- The museum record does not supply a manufacture date.