String bag

[3] In Czechoslovakia, the production of string bags dates back to 1920s to the town of Žďár nad Sázavou in former Czechoslovakia, present day Czech Republic, when a salesman Vavřín Krčil, representing Jaro J. Rousek company,[citation needed] began to produce string bags under the trademark Saarense (EKV) at the local chateau Žďár.

Krčil himself exported the bags to Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and North African countries.

The oil crisis of the mid-1970s meant that GDR could no longer produce Dederon in such large quantities and Eisengarn was then more often used for the manufacture of net bags.

[7][10] String bags were popular in Russia and throughout the USSR, where they were called avoska (Russian: авоська), which may be translated as "perhaps-bag".

[citation needed] With the advent of synthetic materials, some of them were made of stretchable string, so that a very small net could be stretched to a very large sack.

The term originated in the 1930s in the context of shortages of consumer goods in the Soviet Union, when citizens could obtain many basic purchases only by a stroke of luck; people used to carry an avoska in their pocket all the time in case opportunistic circumstances arose.

[13] In 1970 a popular Soviet comedian, Arkady Raikin, explained that around 1935 he introduced a character, a simple man with a netted sack in his hands.