Introduction - Hungarian Furoshiki Club

Greetins from the Head of Club

Welcome to the website of the Hungarian Furoshiki Club of the Hungary-Japan Friendship Society!

It is a great pleasure for us to welcome you here and to see your interest in the unique world of furoshiki. Our club was established on 23 February 2024, and this date was chosen deliberately. In Japan, 23 February is celebrated as Wrapping Day (“tsutsumi” corresponds to the numbers 2-2-3 in Japanese wordplay). This day draws attention to the culture of wrapping and its aesthetic, practical, and environmentally conscious significance. Since furoshiki is one of the most beautiful and versatile forms of the art of wrapping, we felt that no more fitting date could have been chosen for the founding of our community.

Since then, our club has been working to make furoshiki known to an ever wider audience in Hungary and around the world. Our goal is not only to demonstrate various wrapping and tying techniques, but also to promote the values behind furoshiki: creativity, sustainability, reuse, and mutual respect. We are proud that over the years we have built numerous domestic and international connections and have been able to introduce this special tradition to an increasing number of people.

One of our key priorities is education and the training of instructors. We organize workshops, demonstrations, courses, and professional programs so that as many people as possible can learn furoshiki techniques and then share their knowledge within their own communities. We believe that furoshiki is not merely a useful skill, but also a way of thinking that can contribute to creating a more conscious and sustainable future.

We are delighted to accept invitations of all kinds, whether for school activities, cultural events, festivals, museum programs, corporate events, or family days. We are happy to bring the experience of furoshiki wherever people are open to new knowledge and the joy of creating together.

If you would like to learn more about our programs or invite our club to an event, please visit: workshops

Information about our public workshops is also available there.

Thank you for visiting our website. We hope we will have the opportunity to meet in person at one of our events and explore together the creative, practical, and environmentally conscious world of furoshiki.

Kind regards,

Anna Pápai-Vonderviszt

Head of Club

Hungarian Furoshiki Club

(Hungary-Japan Friendship Society)

Who Are We?

Our club is made up of enthusiastic and dedicated individuals who are united by a shared passion for Japanese culture and sustainability. Our instructors come from a variety of professional and academic backgrounds, yet they all share a deep appreciation for the art of furoshiki.

Our team includes artists, designers, environmental advocates, musicians, art historians, and Japanologists. This diversity enriches our programs and enables us to present the world of furoshiki from many different perspectives, offering participants a broader and more inspiring understanding of this unique tradition.

Our International Relations

Below we present our international and domestic partners with whom we work together to promote and popularize furoshiki:

Musubi

Our collaboration with the Japanese company Musubi dates back to the 2010s, when our head of club, Anna Pápai-Vonderviszt, attended her very first furoshiki workshop organized by Musubi. This marked an important milestone in her journey, as she moved beyond self-directed learning and gained the opportunity to study under highly experienced furoshiki masters. Another instructor of our club, Ferenc Dinya, began importing Musubi's traditional Japanese furoshiki cloths to Hungary through Nihon Kaori. To this day, these products represent a significant share of the authentic Japanese furoshiki items available on the Hungarian market. Through these long-standing connections, our club has been able to deepen its knowledge of traditional furoshiki culture while also helping to make high-quality Japanese furoshiki products more accessible to enthusiasts in Hungary.

House of Arts Veszprém

Our cooperation with House of Arts Veszprém began in 2023, even before the establishment of our club. It was during this period that Bernadett Grászli, Director of House of Arts Veszprém, and Anna Pápai-Vonderviszt first met. In the years that followed, Bernadett also completed the furoshiki instructor training, and the presentation and teaching of Japanese textile arts have since become an important part of her institution’s activities. Over time, these programs have expanded beyond furoshiki to include sashiko (traditional Japanese embroidery), shibori (Japanese indigo dyeing techniques), and other related textile crafts. Since 2025, House of Arts Veszprém and our club have been collaborating on several joint projects. One notable example is the “Textile Valley” initiative at the Valley of Arts Festival, where together we introduce visitors to the richness and diversity of textile traditions, including Japanese textile culture.

L’Atelier du Furoshiki

French furoshiki designer and author Aurélie Le Marec became one of our partners in 2026, when we established a close professional relationship. At our invitation, she visited Hungary and conducted several highly successful workshops at the French Institute in Budapest and in Veszprém, attracting considerable interest from participants. We are also grateful to Aurélie for inspiring our club to launch its own furoshiki workshops for children. Her creative and engaging approach demonstrated how furoshiki can be introduced to younger generations in an enjoyable and educational way, opening new opportunities for sharing the values of creativity, sustainability, and cultural exchange with children and families.

Studio Bojagi

Our cooperation with Studio Bojagi, based in Seoul, began in December 2025, when our head of club, Anna Pápai-Vonderviszt, visited the studio's bojagi workshop during a trip to South Korea. This encounter marked the beginning of a valuable professional relationship and cultural exchange between our organizations. Since then, Minkjung Kang, the head of Studio Bojagi, has visited Hungary, where she provided advanced training for our instructors and conducted workshops for the wider public. Through this collaboration, we have been able to broaden our knowledge of bojagi, the traditional Korean textile wrapping art, while offering Hungarian participants the unique opportunity to learn directly from one of its leading contemporary practitioners.

How to Join Our Club

For those who would like to deepen their knowledge of Japanese wrapping techniques or even become instructors themselves, membership in the Hungarian Furoshiki Club is open. Any active member of the Hungary-Japan Friendship Society (abbreviation is MJBT in Hungarian) may join the club by expressing their intention to do so to the club leadership via email at flowerwrap.japan@gmail.com.

Details about becoming a member of the Hungary-Japan Friendship Society, as well as the membership application process, can be found on the Society’s website (only in Hungarian):

https://mjbt.hu/

By joining the club, members receive a continuous 10% discount on purchases from https://flowerwrap.eu and https://nihonkaori.hu. In addition, club members are entitled to discounted participation fees for workshops and other programs organized by the Hungarian Furoshiki Club.

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