A Thing About Furoshiki

Hi everyone, i would like to use this opportunity to share a bit about Furoshiki. First i heard about Furoshiki was from one of the blog that i followed, Little Birdie Secret posted on Monday, 19 July 2010 (Big thank you to Little Birdie Secret and also Craft Envy). My first impression was "Wow, no sew bag definitely is a must have bag for me." Then i searched more info about it on the internet and found many useful tips and different techniques of Furoshiki.

First of all i want to share the background of Furoshiki. From its name you will it's Japanese, and yes Furoshiki is originated from Japan and is a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth technique, which they used to transport clothes, food or gifts. Maybe some of you had already knew what bento is, and Furoshiki are usually use to wrap bento (Japanese lunch boxes).

Now become more popular because they are easy to use, simple, light, no need to sew, and the most important is it's re-usable, which can help to safe our environment (i love this).

You can use many types of fabric in Furoshiki, cotton, rayon, denim, canvas, linen and even silk. But the important thing is you need a square fabric, means that the 4 sides must on the same sizes.

Wait no more, i will show you how to do one of the Furoshiki technique, katakake fukuro (shoulder wrap), kindly follow me.

This is my Furoshiki bag that i just made

The fabric that you want to use must be in square (4 sides are the same sides)

Fold the fabric into triangle shape wrong side up

Take the right hand corner fabric and bring to the center of the fabric

Create a knot for the right hand corner 1/3 from upper corner

Take also the left hand corner to the center

Create a knot on the left hand corner 1/3 from the upper corner

After creating 2 knots, your bag will look like this

I open the bag, so you can see more clear

Now you need to put the 2 knots corner inside with right side up

Bring the 2 top corners without the knots right side up

Your bag will look like this, be patient we're almost finish

Take the 2 top of your cloth and tie a knot to make the handle

Ta-da my Furoshiki bag is finish, i'm ready to go.

Let's Make Them!