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Our 2012 launch item ” LINK Winter Grey” Fursohiki arrived at Plastica, Los Angeles.
You can purchase at shop here , and online shop here
Enjoy your winter!

 
via Plastica

We’ll join Etsy weekend event in Tokyo from January 21-22. (open from 11:00-17:00)
This is the first market event for Etsy Japan and we’re so happy to join this event.

LINK will have small exhibition and market during 2 days and Kyoko (Link Tokyo) will have Furoshiki Wrapping Workshop on January 22nd from 14:00 to 15:00, using LINK 2012 new launch Furoshiki.
Please check the event detail and feel free to join if you are in Tokyo!

2012年1月21日〜22日（開催時間 11:00 – 17:00)に、Etsy Japan初のリアルマーケットが開催されます！ 展示＆マーケット参加の他に、LINK東京担当の私（京子）が22日 14:00-15:00に、知っていそうで意外と知られていない”風呂敷”の簡単な使い方を新作風呂敷を使いながらご提案いたします。お近くの方は是非おたちよりください。

Furoshiki Wrapping Workshop/ 風呂敷の使い方ワークショップ

Model : Lucinda and Aya in LA.

 
We launched pale grey colour Fursohiki by Lucinda Newton Dunn’s stripe pattern.

This sensitive grey colour pattern reminds us a fresh wintery feel and the colour of snow. Perfect use for scarf and multi wrapping cloth. Material is soft and lighter weight, smooth cotton.

Handmade in Japan, using Japanese traditional printing techniques.

You can purchase at LINK Etsy shop
日本語リリースはこちら

 
How to use Furoshiki video here

Have you already found any special Xmas gift ?

We’re running FREE SHIPPING month till 15th/ December at our Etsy shop!

LINK(TOKYO) decided to sell Furoshiki via Etsy with 100% of sales will go to Japanese Disaster Relief Until the end of Please check our shop on Etsy.

LINK(TOKYO)では、３月末までの風呂敷売上金額の100% を東北関東大震災の支援金に寄付いたします。ご購入ご希望の方は、Etsyサイト、もしくは直接 info@thelinkcollective.com までご連絡ください。

Happy Valentines from Link x

Welcome to thelinkcollective.com!

At last, we see the launch of the project we have been working on so very hard – yes, our furoshiki (pronounced fu-rosh-ki).

So what on earth is a furoshiki anyway?! You may well ask (especially if you don’t happen to be Japanese). Well, now you can find out!

‘What is furoshiki?‘ will tell you all about the history and uses of furoshiki.

We have produced two limited edition furoshiki, designed by Hennie Haworth and Lucinda Newton-Dunn. Take a look at our Products page for more information and photos. And make sure you pop back from time to time for updates – we will be posting ideas and sharing photo stories to give our furoshiki friends inspiration!

‘Where to Buy‘ will take you to the Loopto online store, in case you’d like to buy one!

Finally, thank you so much for visiting and showing us your support. We hope you enjoy our project as much as we do!

Soup – Japanese fashion magazine. May 2010

Hennie talks about her design career in London, as well as her recent collaboration with LINK.

Furoshiki (風呂敷, fu-rosh-ki) is a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth. It can be used in multiple ways, for bundling or gift-wrapping all sorts of things – from lunch boxes or books, to watermelons and bottles of wine. You could even tie it into a handbag or use it as a scarf, a baby blanket or even a wall hanging. One simple and beautiful piece of cloth and the list is endless. You decide!

Furoshiki literally means ‘bath spread’. Possibly dating back as far as the Nara Period (AD 710 to 794), furoshiki gained their name from the Edo period (1603 to 1868), when people used pieces of cloth for bundling clothes while at the public baths. As time went on, and people had a tendency to move around more for business and pleasure, merchants used furoshiki to help transport, protect and decorate their wares. Furoshiki became an indispensable tool in Japanese life.

Modern furoshiki can be made of a variety of cloth, including silk, chirimen, cotton, rayon, and nylon. They are often decorated with traditional designs or by shibori (a type of Japanese tie-dye technique). There is no one set size for furoshiki, they can range from hand sized to larger than bed-sheets.

There are still many furoshiki users in Japan, but their numbers declined in the post war period, probably due to the introduction and wide-spread use of the plastic shopping bag and other modern and disposable forms of packaging. However, in recent years, as environmental issues have become more recognized, Japan has seen a renewed interest in this multi-functional piece of textile. In 2006 Yuriko Koike, the Japanese Minister of the Environment, started the ‘Mottainai Furoshiki‘ campaign, which urges shoppers to use furoshiki in place of plastic shopping bags.