Burlap Bag

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Burlap Bag

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Colleen Kammerer

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Photograph - Photography

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Burlap Bag | Fine Art Photograph by Colleen Kammerer

A Burlap Bag, or sack, is an inexpensive bag usually formed from jute or other natural fibers. These sacks are traditionally used for transporting grains, potatoes, and other agricultural products. Burlap bags are environmentally friendly due to the natural fibers, have great breathability, and are strong. Today they are also sometimes used as sandbags for erosion control. Today, Burlap sacks are also popular in the traditional children's game of sack racing.

Though the most general term is BURLAP BAG, known everywhere but used especially in the Northeast. In the Midwest and West the usual term is GUNNYSACK, which ultimately comes from the Sanskrit word gonī, meaning "jute or hemp fiber." In the Upper South such a sack is called a TOW SACK, and in Eastern North Carolina, a TOW BAG. (The word tow is another synonym for fabric made from jute or hemp and probably derives from an Old English word for "spinning.") In South Carolina and adjacent parts of Georgia, it is called a CROCUS SACK, and in the Gulf states, a CROKER SACK, both terms deriving from the word crocus. Crocus is a coarse, loosely woven material once worn by slaves and laborers and common in colonial New England. It probably took its name from the sacks in which crocus or saffron was shipped. Though the term crocus sack virtually disappeared from New England by the end of the 19th century, it survives in the South.

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February 22nd, 2014

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