Silk and Cotton Furoshiki

Cotton furoshiki, hand-cut and hand-hemmed at the Renaras atelier.

The furoshiki is the cloth Japan has used for centuries to wrap, carry, cover, and present — folded around a gift, tied through a knot to make a bag, laid across a table to hold an arrangement together.

Each cloth in this collection is cut from cotton at our Amsterdam atelier and hemmed by hand, prepared in two sizes for two uses. The 50 × 50 cm is the wrap and small day bag; the 70 × 70 cm makes a generous table cloth or a larger tote. Pair either size with a pair of Renaras patchins — wooden bag handles — and the cloth knots into a furoshiki bag in the older Japanese tradition. Use one to wrap a bottle of wine for dinner, to fold across a console, to carry a book and a notebook to a café. The cloth becomes whatever the day asks of it.

A furoshiki is not finished when it leaves the atelier. It is finished by the hand that ties it.

One cloth. One print. Many lives.