Tag: sack

Wikipedia says: A sack usually refers to a rectangular-shaped bag.

A flour sack, feed sack, or flour bag is a cloth sack, usually made of cheap cotton, used to store flour or animal feed. Flour sacks are often printed with simple designs and trademarks to indicate the millers and companies making or selling the flour. Many regions of the world reuse the sacks to produce clothing and household linens.

A burlap sack or gunny sack, also known as a gunny shoe or tow sack, is an inexpensive bag, traditionally made of hessian fabric (burlap) formed from jute, hemp or other natural fibers. The word gunny, meaning coarse fabric, derives from an Indo-Aryan word. Reusable gunny sacks, typically holding about 50 kg, were traditionally used, and continue to be to some extent, for transporting grain, potatoes and other agricultural products. In Australia, these sacks, made of Indian jute, were known traditionally as ‘hessian sacks’, ‘hessian bags’ or ‘sugar bags’. The term tow sack refers to their being made of tow, spun broken fibres of hemp or other plants.