Yamada Etsuko Livres

Wrap anything from a wine bottle to a yoga mat with this practical Japanese fabric-wrapping book.Long before today's eco-friendly philosophy of "reduce, reuse, recycle" entered America's collective consciousness, furoshiki--the Japanese method of wrapping things with fabric--flourished as a time-honored and practical art form. In Wrapping With Fabric , Etsuko Yamada--born into a long-line of furoshiki makers in Kyoto--explains the "one cloth, many uses" ideology behind the craft, the etiquette of color and the craft's fascinating history. From there, she shares the myriad ways in which a few basic techniques can transform a simple square of cloth into an elegant wrapper.Use your folded fabrics A quiet reminder that opportunities for artistry are everywhere around you, Wrapping With Fabric is the craft book that makes it easy to bring a touch of grace and ingenuity to everyday life--and help preserve the environment, too.

Furoshiki is a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth, and recently it is very popular among international tourists as a souvenir. Furoshiki has a place not only traditional Japanese-style living, but also in modern, Western-style living as well. The ties in furoshiki represent the ties between people and using them to wrap things is a way of wrapping up and presenting our feelings, making furoshiki a fantastic communication tool.Once you learn the basic ways of tying in this book, you can tie furoshiki in all different kinds of to suit the size and shape of the contents within.This lavishly illustrative book shows you how to wrap a bottle, a book, a bento box and more as well as how to tie like a flower, a dewdrop, a tote bag, and a scarf.This book will surely give you new ideas of gift wrapping.