Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/30/2024
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location
Altadena Main Library
Category(ies)
Furoshiki Gift Wrapping (Photo – Altadena Library)
Join Kumi Corsa in a hands-on demonstration of the Japanese art of sustainable gift wrapping with cloth.
Participants will receive a cloth of their own to take home.
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Kumi grew up in Tokyo, Japan and became fascinated with the Japanese tradition of furoshiki at an early age. She has collaborated and held sustainable holiday furoshiki gift-wrapping events with various luxury lifestyle, fashion, beauty and wellness brands and retailers, including well-known Certified B companies such as French fashion house Chloe and Australian beauty brand Aesop. Kumi has also held furoshiki workshops for various cultural and educational institutions such as Japan House. She is based in Los Angeles but travels around the world to hold workshops and spread the practice and message of the beautiful, sustainable, and incredibly versatile Japanese tradition of furoshiki.
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