Save the Trees: Gift-wrapping with Cloth

Save money and the environment this Christmas - use cloth instead of wrapping paper for your holiday gifts.
The Japanese Ministry of Environment is promoting traditional Japanese cloth-folding technique, Furoshiki for wrapping and carrying instead of using wrapping paper or plastic bags. They have recycled old PET bottles into beautiful scarves with Japanese motifs of birds. You can just take some antique linen, scarves or other cloth remnants, add some ink prints, and voila!

The above diagram shows how you can take some old unused scarves, fold and tie elegantly to wrap your gifts this Christmas!

Courtesy of Ministry of Environment, Government of Japan
http://www.env.go.jp/en/focus/060403.html