HOWTO: make a furoshiki wine carrier
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My friend Kazuma, whom I met in my NYU wine class last year, gave me a gift of two furoshiki recently. They are traditional, decorative cloths used for wrapping and carrying. They’re popular now in Japan since they are reusable and give you the chance to say goodbye to plastic bags. In fact, the environmental minister made one from fiber of recycled soda bottles to boost awareness of furoshiki. The Ministry even has graphics of suggested foldings!
Kazuma says they can serve as a handy wine tote for two bottles. He sent along this video of him showing how to tie one on, furoshiki style. (If you’re reading this in a feed reader, click here to view.)
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On January 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am ,Alfonso wrote:
Absolutely genius…simple, elegant and beautiful
-thanks for the demo
On January 4th, 2008 at 11:15 am ,Furoshiki | muse wrote:
[...] while trolling wine blogs, I found a great demonstration chez Dr. Vino of a furoshiki wine bottle carrier. What a fabulous idea! It’s so simple, pratical, and beautiful. I am never creative enough to [...]
On January 4th, 2008 at 5:18 pm ,Steve wrote:
What a great idea!
On January 5th, 2008 at 12:05 pm ,Pablo wrote:
Fantastic!!!! I post this in my blog
Thanks
Pablo
On January 6th, 2008 at 7:03 pm ,Andrea wrote:
Tomorrow I’ll go to the work with it :-)!
On January 6th, 2008 at 8:26 pm ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Fantastic, everybody! Glad you are digging this wine origami!
On January 6th, 2008 at 10:31 pm ,bb wrote:
Very interesting! How big is that hunk of cloth?
On January 7th, 2008 at 8:19 pm ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Hey bb -
My furoshiki are 24″ x 24″
On January 7th, 2008 at 9:54 pm ,bb wrote:
Thanks!
On January 8th, 2008 at 3:27 am ,Joe wrote:
Awesome! Wonder if we’ll ever see these on Amazon.com …. sure beats those wine tote bags.
On January 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am ,bb wrote:
amazon…. maybe we could buy them here at the Dr. Vino online store.
On January 8th, 2008 at 11:20 am ,No more brown paper bags at Random Bits of Photography wrote:
[...] this idea is a tad late for the holidays, it’s never a bad time to give wine as a gift or to bring a [...]
On January 8th, 2008 at 5:25 pm ,Fold a Wine Carrier from a Square of Cloth [Clever Uses] teasered @ TechTalkBlog wrote:
[...] 24×24 inches. This looks like something you want to arrive at the dinner party with in hand. HOWTO: make a furoshiki wine carrier [Dr. Vino’s Wine [...]
On January 8th, 2008 at 8:04 pm ,Kazuma wrote:
Thanks everyone!
KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORE, which is located
1073 Sixth Ave., New York, NY 10018.
tel 212-869-1700.
You can buy them there.
On January 9th, 2008 at 5:02 pm ,Furoshiki - Can we get rid of some plastic bags? « Remarks From Remarksman wrote:
[...] had seen these before, but a post somewhere linking to Dr. Vino reminded me about [...]
On January 10th, 2008 at 6:01 am ,Furoshiki: Wrap Wrap Revolution | Tiny Choices wrote:
[...] ya’ll heard of furoshiki? I hadn’t, until I watched this awesome video (via Lifehacker) showcasing a neat way to turn a piece of square cloth into the coolest wine bottle [...]
On January 15th, 2008 at 7:35 pm ,J LaRoche wrote:
There are three different wine bottle folds: two-bottle carry wrap, single-bottle carry wrap and kimono bottle wrap. Check out ecoshikis.com for folding instructions; we are a Portland, Oregon startup company and make all our products locally. The instructions on our site also notes the furoshiki size you need. Furoshikis are fun and easy to use!
On January 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm ,Emily Bloss » Furoshiki wrote:
[...] found this really neat article on how to make a furoshiki wine carrier… basically you take a square piece of cloth and wind it up around the two wine bottles and [...]
On July 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pm ,Jimmy wrote:
you can also buy them at furoshiki.com