Before plastic bags, before gift wrap, before tissue paper — there was furoshiki. A square of cloth, folded and tied to wrap anything: a gift, a lunch, a bottle of wine, a stack of books. The same cloth, reused hundreds of times, creating no waste. Furoshiki is mottainai in textile form — beautiful, functional, and sustainable.

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