We're thrilled to be able to introduce you to our new Zusetsu Furoshiki Handbook! It includes 16 different styles of furoshiki wrap, so you can create stunning furoshiki gift-wraps for your friends and family, and furoshiki bags too!
Cathy, as you know, is a professional children's book illustrator with many years experience of working for the UK's top publishers. You will see her artwork running through all of Zusetsu's packaging material, and on our popular Instagram Story stickers too.
Zusetsu Furoshiki Snowflower
It's a natural development of Zusetsu for us to pool our skills to create our own range of Zusetsu products. We were thrilled to release our first Zusetsu Furoshiki named Snowflower, which has been screen-printed traditionally in Kyoto using Cathy's elegant design. You can read more about Snowflower here!
Zusetsu Furoshiki Handbook
We are delighted to have published our new Zusetsu Furoshiki Handbook.
In our Furoshiki Handbook you will not only find Cathy's artwork and easy-to-follow diagrams to get you started (and sometimes challenged!) in furoshiki wrapping, but you will also see Yukki's fantastic photos taken while she was living with us here in the Cotswolds.
The furoshiki wraps in the handbook have been carefully thought out using the experience that we have from running our online and in-person workshops.
The stand-out thing that we have learned is that all newcomers to furoshiki who take a little while to become confident are creating fairly complex furoshiki bags by the end of a two-hour workshop with us!
The key to elegant furoshiki wrapping is practice. Perhaps take an old square cloth and practice with it over and over, and you will come to understand how a knot can be tied to look more elegant. You'll see how often the steps are repeated, and so it is important to be mindful of neat symmetry in your furoshiki folding and tying.
Wrapping with furoshiki is an expression of your love and care for someone. You are aiming to make the wrapping as big a part of the present as what is inside it.
You will find tremendous pleasure in your loved one unwrapping their gift. Receiving a furoshiki-wrapped gift is a wonderful experience. And what makes the furoshiki so special is how it is a memento to be kept which will remind you of that moment. Or you may decide to pass it on again and create a circle of giving. How many memories of happiness will that furoshiki store!
So do enjoy our Furoshiki Handbook. It is the perfect accompaniment to your furoshiki gift, enabling the recipient to have many hours of fun furoshiki wrapping!
We hope you have enjoyed our blog and thank you for reading!
See you again soon,
Cathy
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