We all love gifts and feel elated when we receive any. Gifts in beautiful wrappers attract and fills immensely. Gift-wrapping is a popular business adea now. To enhance the value of the gift material, attractive wrapping is done with fancy and captivating accessories. Japan Stylish Textile wrappers are in great demand nowadays.
Here I would like to share with you gift wrapping ideas coming from the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan. In Japanese culture it is a traditional custom to take special concern about wrapping a gift rather than choosing a gift.
Before going into the details of stylish idea from Japan in the art of textile wrapping here's a choice of fabrics used as textile wrappers:
Velvet
Tissue
Satin
Jute
Gift boxes and packets are embroidered with gold, silver, bead and sequins to give extra gloss and look to the textile wrapping. Chocolate and sweet boxes, jewelry or any other gift items are beautifully and creatively wrapped with these fabrics. Lace wrappers, frills and ribbons (satin, nylon and taffeta) are extensively used to gift wrap an item.
The book Gift Wrapping with Textiles : Stylish Ideas from Japan by Chizuko Morita is a good one dealing with unique and innovative ideas on the Japanese art of wrapping a gift with cloth in a modern and contemporary way. Furoshiki, a simple square piece of cloth is artistically crafted for an beautiful and exquisite wrapping for a gift. Furoshiki is an easy art where the cloth can be knotted without any hassle. Unlike the paper wrappers it allows you to do away with your mistakes. It never gets wrinkled or twisted like the paper wrapping. Hence it is durable and can be stored with ease.
