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Gift Wrap Green

Techniques for beautiful, recyclable gift wrapping
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Gift Wrap Green by Camille Wilkinson is a practical guide to beautiful and sustainable gift wrapping. It teaches essential techniques, from simple bows and neat corners to the elegant Japanese art of Furoshiki, all using recyclable, reusable materials. Detailed step-by-step illustrations cover wrapping unusual shapes like bottles and creating unique paper bag styles, pleats, and pockets. The book also explores creative uses of ribbons, string, flowers, and everyday objects to add a personal touch.

This innovative collection encourages a mindful, eco-friendly approach to presenting gifts that will impress recipients and help reduce waste.
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Format: Hardback
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Perfect for eco-conscious crafters, gift givers looking to add artistry and sustainability to their wrapping, and anyone interested in creative DIY projects with an environmental focus.

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Learn beautiful wrapping tricks and techniques to create unique gifts all with material that is recyclable, reusable and sustainable.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

The ideal book for learning the tricks of beautiful gift wrapping, from simple bows and neat corners to Japanese fabric wrapping—all with material that is recyclable, reusable and sustainable.

There are a million ways to wrap a present, but there are some key techniques that are good to master, and this handy guide includes easy step-by-step illustrations of these key techniques. The techniques cover wrapping unusually shaped gifts, including bottles, pleated wrapping, paper bag wrapping and wrapping with pockets. Fabric wrapping techniques include Furoshiki, in which a gift bag is created from a pretty scarf, bottle wrapping and tea towel wrapping.

Also included is guidance on ribbons, the perfect bow, string, wool, using plants and flowers, and incorporating everyday objects.

The innovative book is bursting with ideas and techniques that offer a wonderful mindful creative outlet that will delight friends and family and help save the planet by reducing waste.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849946117

Publisher: Batsford

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 September 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Batsford

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 221.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 160

About the Author

A lifelong crafter, Camille Wilkinson has been wowing friends and family with her extravagant gift-wrapping for decades. But concern over the environment has channelled that creativity to find new, stunning ways to craft in a sustainable way. And it’s become a mission to show the amazing potential of gift-wrapping green. Camille is also the author of the Alphabet Stencil Book. She lives in Yorkshire with a husband and a cluttered crafting table.

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