{"id":7,"date":"2007-12-24T22:06:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T03:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2007-12-24T22:06:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T03:06:27","slug":"japanese-folding-and-wrapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Folding and Wrapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was flipping through the TV channels and Rachael Ray was on. There was a woman showing gift wrapping using a type of “Mottainai Furoshiki,” which is a symbol of the Japanese culture to reduce waste. Furoshiki is “a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth which is used repeatedly in a stylish way.\u201d “Mottainai” means “it’s a shame for something to go to waste without having made use of its potential in full.” Together, they are folding and wrapping ideas to use with a scarf for wrapping presents (instead of using paper or plastic). Some of them are really nifty, like warpping two books into what looks like a purse of sorts to hold the books. The technique is further explained as putting “an accent on taking care of things and avoiding wastes.”<\/p>\n

To get directions, you follow a bunch of links on her site to eventually get to the Ministry of the Environment site. To save you time, here is the site with the directions.<\/a><\/p>\n

At times I wrap gifts for friends in fabric that I painted, and this will be such a cool way to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was flipping through the TV channels and Rachael Ray was on. There was a woman showing gift wrapping using a type of “Mottainai Furoshiki,” which is a symbol of the Japanese culture to reduce waste. Furoshiki is “a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth which is used repeatedly in a stylish way.\u201d “Mottainai” means “it’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetsgood-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}