Furoshiki is the Japanese art form of aesthetically folding square-shaped material for practical purposes, such as gift wrapping, transporting daily items or even as decoration. Incorporating ...

Instead of struggling with wrapping paper this holiday season, get yourself some cloth. The Japanese Furoshiki technique can wrap anything easily and make it look good. Traditionally, Furoshiki is a ...

Everything nowadays—people and things alike—is labeled according to its meaning or role. Japan’s furoshiki wrapping cloth, despite its infinite possibilities, was caricatured in old television dramas ...

In collaboration with the Seattle Consulate-General of Japan and the King County Library System, local residents learned “Fabulous Furoshiki: A New Twist on an Old Idea” at the Woodinville Library.

Furoshiki is the traditional Japanese art of folding cloth to serve a variety of functions. If some of our previous coverage of Furoshiki left you scratching your head, this video might just get you ...

The company that brought the world shoes with toes in its FiveFingers line has introduced footwear modeled after traditional Japanese wrapping cloth. I know, that sentence makes almost zero sense. At ...