French section : Designer: Yuta TABEI, Nippon Designers School

Design Theme: France and Japan - “The old and The new, flowers and light”
This design combines the streetscapes of Paris and Tokyo with a fusion of classic and modern moods. It focuses on a design that brings together the old and the new of the two cities in a fusion of flowers and light.

Mexico section : Designer: Haruka SUGIURA, Nippon Designers School

Design Theme: France and Mexico - “Flower Connection”
This piece adopts a gentle, embracing design featuring the lovely cherry blossom and the resilient cactus as images of Japan and Mexico.

Canada section : Designer: Yuri KOIZUMI, Sugino Fashion College

Design Theme: Canada and Japan - “Maple”
Using brown undertones and the pattern of Japanese Kimono as a base, this design features the Maple of the Canadian flag.

All details on this Japan Foundation page and poster

[fr] Comme un symbole des liens tissés entre les pays, trois furoshiki dessinés par de jeunes créateurs japonais à l'instigation de la Japan Foundation, célèbrent l'amitié entre le Japon et les trois pays suivants : France, Mexique, Canada. Le concours a été lancé à l'occasion de la Triennale de Yokohama et les lauréats témoignent d'une belle sensibilité dans la création de cet objet traditionnel. Les trois créateurs sont : Yuta TABEI et Haruka SUGIURA, Nippon Designers School, Yuri KOIZUMI, Sugino Fashion College.

Chaque carré s'impose par des qualités graphiques différentes (voir plus haut dans la partie en anglais du billet leur plein développement) : dynamisme des lignes et douceur des lumières bleues ; humour du cactus chapeauté emprisonné dans les rubans éphémères de fleurs de cerisier, le tout sur un semis de pétales réguliers ; volutes grège -- entre sable ratissé, thé fumant et transitions nuageuses entre les espaces dans la peinture traditionnelle japonaise -- mais aussi ponctuation forte par la feuille d'érable, comme un sceau ou une gravure sur pierre ou sur bois...

Pour en savoir plus : des pages de Japan Foundation (en anglais) (en japonais)

Source des images : The Japan Foundation.
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japan cipango furoshiki

Según la wikipedia, el Furoshiki es una tela cuadrangular tradicional de Japón, que es utilizada para envolver y transportar todo tipo de objetos, desde ropa y regalos hasta botellas de vidrio.

Por tanto, es un accesorio de lo más ecológico, pues sólo con llevar tu furoshiki encima, te "ahorras" todas las bolsas de plástico de tus compras.

Pero además puede ser un accesorio de moda, la manera más original de envolver tus regalos (o un regalo en sí mismo), o la forma de reciclar todos esos pañuelos y pañoletas que acampan por los cajones de nuestras casas.

Es facílisimo, porque se trata de hacer nudos :) pero si tienes alguna duda, el Gobierno japonés, a través de su Ministerio de Medio Ambiente ha editado una guía para fomentar su uso y así reducir el uso de bolsas de plástico y envoltorios de regalo.

Este es el "Manual de Instrucciones" publicado por el gobierno japonés:

Y este es mi primer "furoshiki", con una pañoleta que tenía por casa

¡me encanta!

Mas información (y unos videos muy claros) aquí

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Furoshiki

El furoshiki es una tela fina cuadrangular que se utiliza para envolver con elegancia y transportar cómodamente objetos de cualquier forma. Desde la era Nara (710-794) es un método tradicional japonés, pero en la actualidad está de moda entre las jóvenes japonesas y hay de diversos colores y diseño.

El precio suele oscilar entre los 500 yenes hasta 20.000 yenes o más, pero los que se usan normalmente cuestan entre 1.000 y 2.000 yenes.

La ministra japonesa de Medio Ambiente, Yuriko Koike, propuso su uso en la vida cotidiana como alternativa ecológica para reducir el uso de las bolsas plásticas. La iniciativa se llamó “Mottainai Furoshiki”; la palabra “mottainai” representa el sentido de desperdicio. La tela “furoshiki” es cuadrada con dimensiones de unos 60 centímetros de cada lado, y se puede doblar de varias maneras para envolver objetos que son de menores dimensiones. Además, esta tela se elabora en base a materiales resistentes, lo que permite su reutilización.

El Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, también ha promocionado la creación de diseños modernos de esta tela de tradición, y está llevando a cabo ferias y anuncios públicos para mostrar estos productos a la población, a fin de incrementar su uso y aplicaciones.

Los diseños modernos añaden valor y aplicabilidad a otros usos para estas telas; por lo que los “furoshikis” pueden también usarse como prendas de diseño para damas, de manera similar a la que algunos pañuelos pueden ser usados. La Ministra de Medio Ambiente misma, la señorita Yuriko Koike, ha participado en esta iniciativa, diseñando una tela “furoshikis” con material reciclado de botella de plástico. (PET poliéster)

Formas para usar el furoshiki

De esta manera, el Ministerio calcula que si los japoneses usaran la tela “furoshiki” para sus compras una vez a la semana, habría 600 millones de bolsas plásticas menos cada año que terminen como basura.

Incluso en algunas escuelas ya se enseñan las diferentes formas de envolver con el “furoshiki”
Link a la página del Gobierno Japonés (con la foto del Furoshiki)

Link local al archivo (PDF)
Use el siguiente enlace para ver video sobre “furoshiki“
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnfEN8SfLGo

they won't respond to emails and they won't take down my images. i'm just plain mad. but i'll get over it. i've had several kind offers of pro bono legal help offered. thank you. you know who you are.
not having to think about this and having someone else handle it allows me to get back to what i really need to be doing-making and selling my work and visiting a 4th grade classroom each week.

you know, i could just ignore the whole thing and go on dyeing and creating. but i do feel a responsibility to the greater good to do my small part to stop this sort of thing. even if it feels like i'm swimming upstream. this is just the tip of the iceburg. today i found a second similar site using my images- but they have since removed them. i'm only a small fish in a huge ocean. buyer beware.

it is hard enough to make a living this way but when people just brazenly co-op your work for their own profit it really is too much! it appears as if these ladies want to test out the viability of selling furoshiki products. So with that in mind they create a website and populate it with stolen images. mind you, they don't own the rights to these images nor do they have an inventory to support it- just the images and the grand idea of selling furoshiki. they didn't dye the silk, create, invent, design the item, or even photograph it. they simply searched the internet and flickr for images they liked and thought were creative and pretty (gee..thanks..i'm flattered) and threw them up on their site to see what stuck. then they went around the internet and posted links, wrote "articles", and sent press releases.
this is what passes for entrepreneurs these days. so much for a background in art. looks like we need to be teaching ethics instead of grantwriting in art school.
sheeeesh!

i feel better already. onward and upward! thanks for hearing me out.

(note*-to see the outcome of this situation, go here.)

Woke up this morning to the usual list of email and started hitting the reply and delete buttons as needed with Milo on one arm of the sofa, Tigga on the other, and a cup of coffee. Paper read and discarded to the recycle bin.

Several posts were running around my head, just which one would I write today? First, I have a post on Jude's CQR collaborative (what if?) project- I finished my first block- took me several hours- but what fun it was what- iffing all over the place! Photos have been posted over at the Flickr pool. Thanks for all the comments and all the fun I had looking at everyone else's crazy blocks. There's more to come I'm sure!

I finished all the silk shibori scrap bags and they are all addressed and ready to go. I even managed to sneak in a couple extra to make it a total of 12. (Sorry- no more right now-have to move on to other things. I may put them up on the etsy site for a while at a fair price if you are interested- give me a day or two). I can't wait to see what all you creative crazies do with them. Of course they are not just for the CQ blocks but it would be great if you send links to an image of what you created with them.
All the bags contain some ribbon as well as some pieces of various shibori- I did a little color coordinating by the pool with a glass of wine with my friend Gail (thanks Gail!)and they looked quite interesting when we were done. I hope you enjoy them!

A little milestone to share- the two year milestone of the blog just passed and over the weekend Shibori Girl leaped over the 100,000 view mark-that's views, not visits. But still a high watermark. Thanks to all who share and contribute here.

As I scrolled through the email I came across one that indicated a comment had been left on the blog regarding one of my posts on furoshiki. It was one of those comments that I usually delete as it was someone placing a link for their business as a comment and nothing more (now deleted). This one piqued my interest as it was a site advertising furoshiki so I clicked over to look. Imagine my surprise when I discovered an image of my work being used on their site to promote their product! You know, I take lots of photos and many people have asked permission for usage and made all the appropriate attribution etc.. Most of it for non commercial usage. Not so the case here. This is also one of those websites where there is no contact info, no phone number or address to indicate where they are located. I have filled out the requisite contact form, hit the send button, and am waiting to see if there is any response. I have, however, (thanks to Google) been able to come up with 2 names but still without any real info. What would you do?
Hopefully, they'll contact me and we'll straighten it out.

I learnt about using furoshiki to wrap presents years ago when I fell in love with shibori dyeing, but had no idea that these apparently simple cloths were so versatile. I love the thought of having three or four scarves in my handbag, and quickly whipping them out when I do the shopping, and producing bags seemingly out of nowhere.

The Japanese Ministry of the Environment have created the above tying chart with lots of different patterns for wrapping everything from bottles of wine to watermelons. It is available here, as a downloadable pdf (416kb).

I've been practising all weekend with every square of fabric I could lay my hands on. I'm going to hem a few in different sizes, to use when wrapping presents.

If you'd like to do this as well, you might like to pop over to Mommy Cooks for her tutorial on producing a furoshiki with a beautifully mitred hem.

A ministra do Meio Ambiente do Japão, Yuriko Koike, teve a idéia de resgatar um antigo costume do país para tentar diminuir a quantidade de sacos plástcos consumidos lá: o Furoshiki. Um tipo de "origami" com tecido para embrulhar e carregar suas compras. Tem técnicas especificas para embrulhar garrafas, livros, objetos compridos, etc. E também podem ser usadas como bolsas para carregar vários items.

Com os tecidos lindinhos que tem, eu adoreia idéia! Pode servir não só para o supermercado, mas como bolsa mesmo. Assim, um dia você usa o lenço no pescoço, outro dia ele vira bolsa, e ainda pode fazer modelos diferentes! E se bobear até com canga dá para usar! Você leva suas coisas para a praia dentro do seu Furoshiki, chegando lá, deita na canga e na hora de ir embora é só embrulhar de novo!

Veja algumas técnicas para usar o furoshiki:

Aqui, as técnicas que fazem parte da campanha do Ministério do Meio Ambiente do Japão.

Pelo que entendi, pode ser de algodão, rayon, seda,.... e tem 1,05 metro de largura. Se preferir, pode ir numa loja de tecidos, comprar um bem bacanão e furoshikar por aí!

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Mais infos:

Aqui, loja para comprar online (as estampas são mais tradicionais japonesas)

Aqui, um site sobre a loja do cara do vídeo acima. Para  o site verdadeiro (em japonês, mas com um monte de amostra de tecido), clique aqui.

Aqui, uma loja americana online, com tecidos japoneses a preços camaradas. 

Mais sobre Furoshiki, aqui

Asociaţia Româno-Japoneză HIMAWARI Iaşi în colaborare cu Palatul Copiilor Iaşi organizează în perioada 4 – 17 august 2008 Şcoala de vară de limbă şi cultură japoneză.

Şcoala se adresează pasionaţilor de cultură niponă, celor care studiază în prezent limba japoneză precum şi celor care nu cunosc nimic despre limba şi cultura Japoniei.

Din program : cursuri de limbă ( gramatică, scriere, conversatie ), cursuri împărţite pe mai multe nivele - incepător, mediu, avansat - , şi cursuri de cultură ( origami – arta împăturirii hârtiei, ikebana – arta aranjamentelor florale, shodou – caligrafie, mancare japoneză, furoshiki – arta împachetării cadourilor, îmbrăcare kimono).

Orele de limbă japoneză se vor desfăşura în intervalul orar 10.00 - 12.20. Orele de cultură între 12.30 - 13.30.

Profesorii care vor susţine cursurile sunt profesori ai Liceului Ion Creangă din Bucureşti precum şi voluntari japonezi JICA ( Agenţia japoneză de cooperare internaţională ).

Preţul: - cursuri de limbă : 30 lei

- cursuri de cultură : 20 lei

- cursuri de limbă şi cultură : 50 lei

Pentru înscrieri sau mai multe informaţii trimite-ţi mail la următoarea adresa de mail:  irina.roibu @ himawari.ro

Vă aşteptăm!

Se sei alla ricerca di un posto dove poter imparare nuove cose, rilassarti e incontrare persone nuove con cui condividere le tue passioni e tuoi interessi sei capitata sul sito giusto! Presso il CentrOlistico di Sesto San Giovanni, alle porte di Milano, organizziamo ogni mese corsi creativi pratici di cucito, uncinetto, amigurumi, maglia e seminari di furoshiki, modellazione della creta, nodi cinesi, gioielli, feltro. Mentre impari tecniche nuove in maniera semplice, veloce e immediata avrai modo di conoscere nuove persone in un clima divertente e amichevole. Ogni lezione prevede la creazione di un pezzo. La durata dell'incontro è calcolata in modo che le partecipanti siano in grado di terminare il proprio lavoro. 

Ogni lezione è svincolata dalle altre. In modo tale potrai decidere tu quali lezioni frequentare, senza impegnarti in un corso lungo e oneroso in termini di tempo e denaro. Ogni tecnica prevede lezioni a diversi livelli per accontentare chi inizia da zero e chi invece vuole approfondire aspetti particolari della materia.

Vai al calendario degli eventi o visita le pagine dedicate alle diverse tecniche

Silvia Romani - corsi creativi - via Marsala, 69 - 20099 Sesto San Giovanni (Mi) - P.Iva 03889430967

Dal sito del ministero giapponese per la gestione dell'ambiente una guida per impacchettare con stile gli oggetti ricavando da un foulard quadrato delle confezioni facilmente trasportabili. Origami con la stoffa? Qualcosa di simile: lo Tsutsumi è infatti «l’arte dell’impacchettare i regali» (definizione presa qui).
Sono curioso e vorrei provare a impacchettare le mie prossime "schiscette" (termine che in milanese significa pranzo portato da casa al lavoro, e per sinestesia indica anche il contenitore – sempre più spesso un Tupperware o simile – e che in italiano forse si traduce con gavetta) seguendo qualche figura dell'esempio.
Qualche immagine di pacchetti effettivamente realizzati con questa tecnica si può vedere qui.
Un interessante libro di ricette per "schiscetta" potrebbe essere Pausa pranzo di Stefano Arturi, edito da Guido Tommasi editore (qui).

Nell'immagine si possono vedere come "impacchettare" differenti oggetti , dalle semplici scatole ale bottiglie, da un singolo oggetto a più oggetti, ecc...

Alcune possibili trame dei Furoshiki!

Informazioni e immagini da Lieve e furoshiki.homepage.jp

1--Recycled Paper: These fabulous designs in the picture above come from Fish Lips Paper Design, which I am now in love with!  Not only are these unique and fun designs, they are printed with non-toxic soy based inks on 100% post consumer recycled paper! 

2--Tree Free Paper:Not just your pressed paper with dried flowers, but handmade paper, typically made in other countries such as Nepal are available in woven grass, lokta, tree bark, banana fiber, spun silk, and recycled rag.  A wide selection of these globally made papers can be found at Paper Mojo.

3--Fabric: To add a personal touch, wrap your gift in fabric.  The wrapping job could even be part of the gift if it were something like a tablecloth, napkin, or pillow case. The Japanese have wrapping techniques, similar to origami where you can learn the art at http://furoshiki.com/techniques.php#basic_wrap.

4--Tape:  If you choose to wrap with paper, keep your packages secure with tape that's free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which releases carcinogenic dioxins when produced. Some good choices would include clear cellulose tape and recycled, gummed paper tape.

5--Get Creative: Last but not least, save some cash and use your creative side.  Use things around the house to do the wrapping such as colorful magazine ads, the comics section of the today's paper, and old maps. To add some flare you could add old buttons, flower petals, fabric or shoe laces for ribbons, and cutouts of any decorative paper you have lying around.

I hope these 5 tips come in handy next time you have a wedding, birthday party, or even Mother's Day coming up this weekend.  Not only will you be helping out the environment, but I promise the person receiving the gift will feel extra special for putting so much effort into it. :)

K E L S E Y - - v a i l , c o l o r a d o

Una de esas costumbres que estoy intentando asimilar en mi día a día es la del Furoshiki. Se trata de una tela cuadrangular –que puede ser de seda, algodón o nylon– y que sirve para envolver cosas. Pueden ser objetos personales o incluso regalos, conviertiendo el envoltorio en un aliciente más del regalo. La ventaja del furoshiki es que se puede reutilizar las veces que quieras y que puedes hacer el envoltorio de varias maneras, de forma que se adapte al objeto transportado. Además, no es excesivamente complejo aprender a envolver una botella con un poco de gracia, un bento o hacerte un bolso con un trozo de tela.

El furoshiki fue un invento japonés. Se usaba para no confundir la ropa en los ofuros (baños públicos). De manera que, poco a poco se fue convirtiendo en una costumbre usada más allá de los baños, para llegar a ser todo un arte. Poco a poco la costumbre se perdió en beneficio de las bolsas de plástico. Pero no hace mucho que el propio Ministerio de Medio Ambiente ha promovido la recuperación de esta costumbre y que ha acabado convirtiéndose en una moda entre las jóvenes. De esta manera se reduce el número de bolsas de plástico notablemente.

Otra opción, igual de válidad pero menos nostálgica, es usar bolsas que no sean plásticas. Hace unos meses compré en una tienda que se llama Tokyo Hands una bolsa de la marca Benetton que se enroscaba para acabar ocupando un mínimo espacio. De esta manera, siempre que necesites cargar algo, puedes llevarte tu propia bolsa.

Poner tu grano de arena con el medio ambiente no cuesta tanto. Además de útil, es estético. Os dejo enlaces relacionados con el Furoshiki, por si estáis interesados en el tema.

Furoshiki en la Wikipedia

Página con ejemplos y tienda.

Hacerse un boldo usando técnicas del furoshiki

Here's a link to a page with more info and great pictures:
http://furoshiki.com/techniques.php

Carrots, cucumbers, and mini bell peppers on a bed of lettuce. Lemon juice + olive oil dressing, of course.

Furoshiki: a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth. Inside, a lunch box packed with cucumber rolls.

For those of you who were asking about the pincushion design: the wrapping is based on traditional Japanese furoshiki - yotsu musubi - the second method you see here:

I bought the original sashiko pincushion as a kit from this company. The interior cushion is made from kimono silk. It is really rather lovely. They do not list the kits on their website, and I have had a bit of trouble contacting them by email in the past but I often spot them at quilt and stitching shows (in the UK). For those of you who are interested in the sashiko stitching, Susan Briscoe is the woman to contact in the UK. Her books are very good indeed, and she also sells some stitching kits directly from her website.

Anyway, the pincushion is a traditional and very simple furoshiki design. I'll post a how-to-make tutorial in a couple of days, for those who are interested in making their own bobbly objects. I have become mildly obsessed with furoshiki since the pincushion episode -- they are so satisfyingly simple -- and have been attempting to design a reversible knitting project bag combining a few different wrapping methods. If I manage to come up with a good workable design, I'll post another tutorial.

Have a lovely weekend!

Now, I enjoyed the stitching, but the thing I found most pleasing was the resulting pincushion-object. It was so neat! so wee! such a simple and satisfying design! And it fastened with *bobbles*, for crissakes.

bobbles!

how canny a thing is that?

Then a worrying haze descended. I was so enamoured of the prototype, I had to make another. This was clearly an appealing object that might be rendered in different ways, without sashiko stitching, using different fabrics . . .

. . . or several different fabrics . . .

Mr B returned home from a long run to find me frenetically turning out pincushions. "Look at them!" I shrieked, "they have bobbles!" "That's right," he nodded, backing nervously towards the door, "whatever you say. . ."

I have now managed to stop forming bobbles and Mr B has not packed me off to the puzzle factory. I do, however, have more pincushions than I know what to do with. I have given several away as gifts, but there are a few of the beggars left as testimony to my craft insanity. To save me from myself, just leave a comment on my blog between now and March 20th. I'll select the 'winner' at random, and post you a pincushion.

When we got to the exhibit, we meandered around beautifully painted Japanese Art, Carved jade pieces and the largest pure crystal sphere I have ever seen.  The jade bottles, carvings and boxes were amazing!    Then it was time for the Tea Ceremony discussion.  It was fascinating.  The lecturer was one of the owners of The Cultured Cup,  A gourmet tea, coffee, and chocolate shop located in Dallas.  I got to taste three different types of Japanese green teas; Hojicha, Genmaicha and Sencha Midori.  I loved them all, and was amazed by the different flavors they all had.   Kyle, the speaker was very knowledgeable.  I learned about Chabana - the special floral arrangements used for tea ceremonies, and "Wabi-Sabi style"- which basically means that in life one should appreciate the beauty of things that are imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.  That is why the imperfection of the Japanese Tea bowl is viewed as beautiful.  Kyle passed around examples of Japanese tea bowls, and a German made perfect porcelain cup.  This helped in emphasizing his point, that it is important to appreciate the beauty in the imperfect. 

After the Tea Ceremony presentation, we went to see the Ikebana.  They were beautiful.  In principle, Ikebana is a disciplined art form where the arrangement is a living thing in which nature and humanity are brought together.  It is steeped in the philosophy of developing a closeness with nature.  Many practitioners of Ikebana feel that the spiritual aspect of Ikebana is very important.  One becomes quiet when one practices Ikebana.  It helps you to live "in the moment" and to appreciate things in nature that previously seemed insignificant.  One becomes more patient and tolerant of differences, not only in nature, but more generally in other people.  In some Ikebana, the relationship between heaven, earth and man is represented.  There are many different schools of Ikebana, each with their own methods and techniques.  Americans tend to just throw flowers in a vase.  In Ikebana; thought, composition, spirituality, and connection with nature, are all explored to create a living work of art. 

The final event of the day was a demonstration of Furoshiki.  Furoshiki is the Japanese art of cloth wrapping.  We even got to try our hand at it.  In 2006 in Japan, their Minister of Environment recommended that people use Furoshiki to help reduce waste in the environment.  She wanted the utilization of  "Mottainai Furoshiki" to contribute to reducing household waste from plastic bags.  I am going to make myself a purse using this method with one of my old scarves. 

All in all, I had a great time!  I learned some very fascinating things about the Japanese culture, and I definitely want to explore this some more!

With all the online and offline reading I've been doing, I have been discovering all sorts of things - and really enjoyed learning about Furoshiki. Delightful idea for christmas and gift wrapping don't you think? But for now, imagine enjoying a few bottles of wine that we've brought along furoshiki style!

Here's a nice link from a twitter friend: How to use Furoshiki