Happy holidays! This week we’re revisiting our favorite festive stories from years past, like this one: Once, at a dinner ...
Wrapping paper – that thing that makes our holiday gifts look so festive – has a landfill problem. If it's shiny, metallic, or glitter-encrusted it's not recyclable. And even recycled paper isn't ...
Founder Natasha Fernandes Anjo was working in a fabric shop when she turned a piece of material that was too small to make the shirt she was working on into the first iteration of what her label is ...
Furoshiki, the Japanese tradition of wrapping objects in cloth to cover or transport them, is becoming more popular as a more eco-friendly way to wrap presents without wasting paper. Much of the paper ...
In Japan, before mass-produced plastic bags took over, a square of cloth served to wrap purchases of varying shapes and sizes. What the Western world may have derided as a “hobo bundle,” was elevated ...
Instead of struggling with wrapping paper this holiday season, get yourself some cloth. The Japanese Furoshiki technique can wrap anything easily and make it look good. Traditionally, Furoshiki is a ...
Ditch the paper gift wrap, bags and tissue paper this holiday season for the eco-friendly alternative of furoshiki (pronounced fu-row-she-kee). The Japanese wrapping technique is traditionally ...
In this video “furoshiki prince” Yokoyama Isao demonstrates how to use a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth to wrap a number of items. First things first. Perhaps you don’t have any furoshiki at home ...
A European twist on furoshiki, Japanese wrapping cloth, is opening up a new world of wrapping as sustainability trends revive the traditional practice. Anna Papai-Vonderviszt, 40, a furoshiki designer ...
Keiko Furoshiki is a family business reimagining the centuries-old Japanese tradition of furoshiki. Furoshiki translates to “bath spread,” a reference to the practice’s origins: using cloth to ...
Much of the paper that wraps holiday gifts is not recyclable. Unless you choose to save and reuse it, it probably winds up in a landfill. An eco-friendlier option is an ancient tradition from Japan ...