Amazingly beautiful, Eco, maultiused textile cloth Furoshiki



Riversible Furoshiki, fold into windmill pattern

And then there’s furoshiki. Furoshiki, from furo (bath) and shiki (spread), is a traditionalJapanese wrapping cloth. Historically made from Japanese silk crepe and 100% cotton, furoshikiare now made from a wide variety of fabrics and - just like tenugui, reversible, with a contrastingcolour and print pattern on each side.

With ten sizes ranging from 45cm to 230cm, furoshiki can be used for many different purposes,including:

Futa-haba (68-70cm) and Nishaku-haba (74cm)
                          – wrapping gifts or accessorizing outfitsas a scarf

Nishi-haba (90cm) – wrapping wine bottles or doubling up as a handbag

Mi-haba (100-105cm) – for table or home decoration

Yo-haba (128cm) – for a cushion cover or an attractive basket

Using your furoshiki is easy when you know how. Take a look at these clips for a quickdemonstration of how you can create some beautiful and  useful objects: 

A reusable wrapping cloth 

Furoshiki shop in Japan

To make a bag 

A small purse

Hundreds of uses from a single product

Japanese culture has always striven to make

its best products as multi-functional as possible.

If you think about it, when tenugui and
furoshiki were invented, materials were
harder to come by, so it was logical to use them for many different purposes. These days, cotton is no longer such a hard-to-find commodity, but the same spirit persists: why not turn a beautiful object into a highlyfunctional product that can be used over and over again till its torn off.

 

Furoshiki for modern girls

Handmade Japanese textiles in a huge variety of designs

Here at Japan Originals, our huge textile range features colourful tenugui and furoshiki that havebeen carefully hand-made using centuries-old dyeing processes.

Need some advice on how to use your tenugui?

Thought up an original use for your furoshiki?

Get in touch and tell us about it!