Let’s Talk Trash! NOV/DEC 2017
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Dear Santa
Why do we, each time we give a gift, ritually wrap that offering in decorative tree pulp? The short answer is that wrapping, as a practice, has been around for ages—literally, ages. The Japanese furoshiki, the reusable wrapping cloth Where did the wrapping tradition come from?
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still in use today, is a pretty faithful rendition of the version that’s been around since the Edo period. The
Korean bojagi dates from the Three Kingdoms Period, possibly as early as the first century A.D. In the west, using paper as a covering for gifts has been a longstanding, if largely luxury-oriented, practice: Upper-class Victorians regularly used elaborately decorated paper—along with ribbons and lace—to conceal gifts. In the early 20th century, thick, unwieldy paper gave way to tissue (often colored in red, green, and white) that would similarly work to conceal offerings until they were opened. The practice was echoed in a slightly more practical form by stores, which would wrap customers’ purchases in sturdy manila papers. See page15 for how to wrap a present. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ archive/2012/12/wrappers-delight-a-brief-history-of- wrapping-paper/266599/
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