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Question: How can I wrap gifts in a

cogat — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:08:16 -0800

When I was in Japan, I bought something which was cuboid shaped which I asked to be gift wrapped. The shop assistant wrapped it in such a manner that only one piece of sellotape was required. The paper was also arranged pleasingly diagonally across the gift, and seemed to be evenly spread around its surface, rather than having densely-folded sides like more common (western) wrapping. How can I learn that technique? Does it have a name?

I seem to remember that the technique involved placing the box diagonally and carefully on a standard size sheet of paper, and then 'rolling' the box around the paper to make the folds. Having sent the gift to its intended, I couldn't reverse-engineer it. The appropriate google query eludes me, and there is nothing on this thread about that specific technique.

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:32:14 -0800

tsutsumi?

origata (wrapping w/out cutting)?

different styles

None of these seem like what you described, though. Perhaps if I had the name of the store where the gift was purchased (I'm in Korea, there are many Japanese stores here).

By: nevers

nevers — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:42:53 -0800

check out diagonal wrapping on this page -- i think that's what you want.

By: GooseOnTheLoose

GooseOnTheLoose — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:54:39 -0800

nevers got it. They do that at all the Japanese stores here (I am not in Japan, but it's quite obviously a consistent theme).

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:26:28 -0800

Man, the japanese are just so hard core.

By: lemonfridge

lemonfridge — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:43:28 -0800

Thats incredibly cool

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:58:07 -0800

Good question.
Hello bookmarks.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:07:26 -0800

Very, very cool.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:29:06 -0800

I hate wrapping presents, but that's awesome.

By: freudianslipper

freudianslipper — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:12:29 -0800

so rad. i'm totally wrapping this way now.

By: Quietgal

Quietgal — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:52:51 -0800

This is why I love AskMe. Although I never wrap presents, I read the question out of idle curiosity, follow some links, and find directions for tying a beautiful bow knot, which I had been searching for (to no avail) for another project. Wonderful what kind of stuff MeFites dig up!

By: aspo

aspo — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:11:52 -0800

grr... step 6 totally confuses me. has anyone figured this out?

By: cogat

cogat — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:31:55 -0800

Yeah me too. I think I can figure it out, but then it doesn't make sense to repeat 3 and 4...

By: nevers

nevers — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:23:02 -0800

steps 3 and 4 (folding the paper at the corner line inwardly and lifting the paper, adjusting so that "B" lines up with "A") and are the ones you have to repeat over and over.

after step 5, rotate the whole thing 90 degrees counter clockwise on the table and you'll see a setup very similar to the one you had after step 2. then repeat steps 3 and 4 with the corner that's newly facing you (it doesn't say to do this, but that's what you do). then you can turn the box upright, into the position where it's shown in step 6. from there just continue to flip the box to the left to get to step 7.

after step 7, rotate the whole thing 90 degrees clockwise on the table and you'll have a setup that looks like a mirror image of the box after step 2. repeat steps 3 and 4 on the corner that's newly facing you (only in mirror).

then rotate the whole thing 90 degrees clockwise on the table again and do steps 3 and 4 again. then you'll end up with something that looks like step 8. yours might look different depending on the size of your paper compared to your box.

hope this helped -- i can try to explain in even more detail if needed.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:19:29 -0800

THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE