TUTORIAL.Ecolo and original, discover how to pack your Christmas gifts with fabric, Furoshiki

Ecological, aesthetic, do you know Furoshiki?This art of packing gifts with fabric is ideal for Christmas.A Japanese, specialist in the question, explains this method to us.

Some 40 million rollers go there every year in France, with an identical final destination for everyone: the trash!No less than 20,000 tonnes of gift wrap would be thrown every Christmas, especially because the packaging is not recyclable.There is a solution to avoid all of this: Furoshiki, the art of packing gifts with fabric, an idea coming straight from Japan.We asked an expert to an expert on the issue.Here is a little tutorial on video.

A question of politeness

Tetsuya Gotani is obviously Japanese.He has lived in France for 18 years.Installed in Clermont-Ferrand, he is master in the art of origami.It is also unbeatable on the Furoshiki."It is an old Japanese custom that comes back.It is a fabric packaging which was born about in the 8th century.He then evolved during the samurai era.It was politeness, when we offered gifts, you were packed them either with fabric or with paper.The paper packaging then gave rise to the origami, "he says.He continues: "I don't remember how I learned this art.It’s something very natural in Japan, I probably learned with my grandmother, my mother ”.

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A square fabric

First advice, the choice of fabric: "You have to use a square fabric.I don't know why but the Japanese like square things, as in origami, everything is done with square paper "explains Tetsuya Gotani.Everything is done simply: "It's about folding and tie.It’s not worth scoring.We can do lots of things.It is very simple.You can even invent your way of packing ".The Japanese master excels in these two arts: concerning the origami he is even the author of works showing complex works and children's methods.

Fashion from Japan

The Origami Master noticed this Furoshiki mode.He explains: "There are books that come out on the subject.I think it's a bit fashionable, like Japanese culture.Also, at the supermarket we no longer give plastic bags.In Japan young girls use it for this use ".The two Japanese folding arts have similarities.Tetsuya Gotani says: "Origami and furoshiki are alike.We work from a square.There are folds but the origami is much more complicated ".

An ecological art

"It's ecological.You can use the same fabric several times.If you have a fabric that you no longer use, it is not worth throwing it away, you can take it in Furoshiki to pack things, "says the Japanese expert.He adds: "In the Japanese custom, when you give the gift, you must recover the fabric, you should not give it.If you give it, you take up the gift!But today we can offer fabric ".Tetsuya Gotani continues: "I work in schools and I give complex lessons for adults.I am a creator, I invent models, without cutting from a square sheet.It requires hours and hours of work.I recently created a reindeer, I took two months to create it and to fold it it takes 6 hours ".

Horizontal nodes

"There is an important thing to know: in the Furoshiki, we make knots and when you tie twice, it's like a little butterfly with two pieces of fabrics.You must make horizontal knots.If it's vertical, it brings bad luck according to the Japanese, "says Tetsuya Gotani.With these tips, you are ready to pack your gifts like a real Japanese!