Oh love this, would be perfect for Sooz “put to good use” swap, which is still open for entries. Link to tutorial.
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gift wrap
If you celebrate Christmas, you are probably in the throes of gift-wrapping as we speak. It can get pretty tedious wrapping gift after gift in the traditional way (seamline wrapping) So this year, give these Japanese techniques a shot: envelope-style or the slightly more complicated-looking diagonal wrapping.
Better yet, use fabric to wrap your gifts to reduce waste (I always get slightly nauseated on Christmas morning watching all that gift wrap getting wadded up and tossed in the trash). The Japanese government even promotes the practice and offers this PDF chart detailing how to wrap a number of differently-shaped objects with fabric. (via Make)
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inhabitat has an interesting article about gift wrapping ideas from future present.
Future present challenged the design community to come up with eco friendly ways to wrap gifts – they say “Every year in the UK we use more than 8,000 tonnes of wrapping paper for our Christmas presents, equivalent to 50,000 trees. And sticky tape, being non-biodegradable, prevents us from reusing those mountains of wrapping paper.”
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