Furoshiki Wrap Wine Bottles. The perfect hostess gift tutorial from Megumi Inouye on CreativeBug.

When it comes to choosing a gift that keeps on giving – it’s all in the presentation.

Spend less than five minutes learning Furoshiki, a traditional Japanese cloth technique used to wrap as well as transport items. In this CreativeBug workshop, Megumi Inouye shows you how to quickly and elegantly bundle two bottles of wine to bring to a picnic or give as a gift. Once you know the principles of Furoshiki, you’ll be looking for more things to wrap in Furoshiki!

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Gift wrapping for Megumi Inouye is less about the techniques of aesthetic presentation than it is about the heartfelt intentions behind gift giving. Megumi represents a unique gift wrapping style, guided by her Japanese heritage and a culture that places value in the thought behind a gift symbolized through presentation and wrapping. She brings to the forefront the traditional origins of gift wrapping where packaging was artful and resourceful and achieved by using materials already on hand. Bringing this sensibility to the modern day, Megumi often uses repurposed, found, organic and recycled materials because they represent her belief in the potential of beauty and a second life for the things we carelessly throw away.

So, what are you waiting for? Make a pattern. Make a print. Make a difference.

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