Saree / Dress Packing or Wrapping:
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Gift packing or wrapping is an art of enclosing a gift by some material which is generally colored paper to wrap and on that ornamental knot by ribbon. When we wrap a gift, it gives value addition in your present, it gives personal touch to your gift, it gives positivity to the recipient when he / she receives it and finally it is a beautiful love symbol between you and the recipient of the gift. In addition to this, it gives an opportunity to the creative person to decorate the packing in number of different ways.
Some people think that wrapping a gift is a waste of time and waste of material used because everyone is interested in the inside gift and for that wrapping is going to be teared. But I don't think so only that it should not cost much.
Some people think that wrapping a gift is a waste of time and waste of material used because everyone is interested in the inside gift and for that wrapping is going to be teared. But I don't think so only that it should not cost much.
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The culture of wrapping the gift is not a new fad or new idea. It's old. In old days gifts are covered by beautiful cloths or handkerchief with embroidery on that. There is one proverb in Hindi (our National Language) "एक नूर आदमी दस नूर कपडा" meaning if a person counts one then his / her dress counts ten. Similarly we can say, "good packing increases the beauty of the saree / dress ten times".
Particularly marriage gifts are packed in a very decorative manners. In the marriages of my son and daughter I have made several and variety of gift packings. Though all photos are not with me today but some photos are here.
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For wrapping I generally use beautiful printed papers and Adhesive tape.
Particularly when the packed item is saree I don't want to stretch the eagerness of a lady about the saree so I pack it in a special manner so that glimpse of the saree and its accessories can be seen even after packing 😛.
Packing Method:
In saree shop number of saree boxes are available. Two sarees can be packed in one saree box. First half part of the saree box is taken, it is wrapped by colored paper from outside only and fixed by adhesive tape as in the photo 7 and 8. (Sorry for the photos because I have just used the paper which is at home hence it is not well pressed) Fig 9 shows the back sides of the packing box after wrapping colored paper. Then keep saree along with blouse piece, matching bangels, matching purse, matching handkerchief (what ever accessories you want to give) as in fig 10. Then fix a transparent colorless gelatin paper above it and wrap from all the sides and fixed by adhesive tape on the back side (please see the above photos). All the things inside (accessories) are packed and do not move.
Now decorate it as you wish. For marriage packing I generally use tissue ribbon of golden color for decorating.
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For decorating it, you can use sateen ribbon its bow, flowers etc. Just as in Fig 1, I have made two
flowers, one of golden ribbon and another from red sateen ribbon (matching with the inner saree), similarly in fig 2 and 5 where as in fig 4 saree packing I have used the white flower from an old bunch of flowers in flower pot. In fig 3 narrow ribbon is used with double strips. In fig 6 small roses are made again by folding ribbon.
If it is dress material of gent's dress then I think that packing should be same but decoration of packing should be simple, just narrow ribbon and small rose flower on that as in fig 6.
But today we think of environment, hence to avoid unnecessary use of papers we should think of reusable papers and things for decorating the gift.
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Generally I prefer used waste material for decorating for example, broken jewelry, broken part of show pieces (as flowers are used above).
We can also make flowers of fabric, ribbon etc. Many such flowers can be seen on you-tubes.
The pink fabric flower is based on the flower demonstrated in the link,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi4yI3zFTKs
Those ribbon flowers are also simple.
This beaded flower is also a part of old Toran, (Piece that is attached to the upper portion of the door in India). There are such six flowers in that toran. After that toran is fed up, I remove this bead flower part and use it to gift packing.
Most right side pink color flower is as per
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwOzNNxNYk
Some times I see some crocheted flowers, leaves on internet while surfing and I cannot resist myself from doing it,then where to use it? Of course for packing purpose. Similarly tatted laces are made to decorate the packing but as tatting takes much time I avoid that and use crochet instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi4yI3zFTKs
Those ribbon flowers are also simple.
This beaded flower is also a part of old Toran, (Piece that is attached to the upper portion of the door in India). There are such six flowers in that toran. After that toran is fed up, I remove this bead flower part and use it to gift packing.
Most right side pink color flower is as per
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwOzNNxNYk
Some times I see some crocheted flowers, leaves on internet while surfing and I cannot resist myself from doing it,then where to use it? Of course for packing purpose. Similarly tatted laces are made to decorate the packing but as tatting takes much time I avoid that and use crochet instead.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htSAyyxCvHQ&t=628s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6-WfMraV3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUYRV5V_79w
Thus number of crochet flowers and leaves can be made in leisure time which can be used in packing and they can be reused. See below fig 15,16 and 17.
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