Here’s to a very upcycled festive season.

All upcycled paper, and all creations made with love.

Festive Upcycled Gift-Wrap: single sheets - SOLD OUT

Made from old atlases and books otherwise at the end of their traditional lifespan, we’re honouring and extending their purpose by converting their in-tact pages into one-off and unique pieces of beautiful festive upcycled wrapping paper. Each piece is carefully unstitched from the old books, and their designs carefully and individually painted by artists and volunteers in the A Kindsugi Future studio in Brunswick, Melbourne.

We’ve put together two main styles for the wrap: detailed festive patterns ($6/sheet) which have been designed by us and carefully hand-painted on, and festive shimmer patterns ($4/sheet) where we’ve applied a delicate golden sheen over the upcycled paper, giving it a vibrant and festive feel.

All sheets are aimed to be approximately 30cm x 50cm, however, there may be some variation due to differing page sizes.

Pick-up is from the A Kindsugi Future Studio located at 24 Hope St, Brunswick: opening hours for viewing and collection are displayed back on the ‘Upcycled Creations’ page of our website.

from $4.00
Festive Upcycled Gift-Wrap: full set packages of 5 or 7 rolls. SOLD OUT

Package options are available if you’re keen to have as many gifts under the tree this year all wrapped up in a beautiful range of fully upcycled festive gift-wrap paper. Packages available in mixed sets of 5 rolls and 7 rolls, and we’ve applied a 10% discount for the bundle purchase.

Full mixed set of 5 sheets includes: Snowflakes all Around, Reindeer Adventure, Summertime Sunset, Garden of Billy Buttons, Bauble Wonderland.

Full mixed set of 7 sheets includes: Snowflakes all Around, Reindeer Adventure, Summertime Sunset, Garden of Billy Buttons, Bauble Wonderland, Scarlett Shimmer, Golden Globe.

Pick-up is from the A Kindsugi Future Studio located at 24 Hope St, Brunswick: opening hours for viewing and collection are displayed on the ‘Upcycled Creations’ page of our website.

from $27.00
Festive Upcycled Gift-Tags: bundles of 3, 5 or 10. SOLD OUT

These festive upcycled gift tags are lovingly crafted in a two-step process; first the creation of the festive imagery is carefully applied, followed by sewing upcycled blank paper onto the other side so that a spot for a message can be left by the gift-giver.

There are swing and small card-style tags, with bundles including a varied assortment of each.

Please let us know during check-out if you have a request for any specific tags to be included in your bundle.

from $7.50
Custom festive order

Please let us know if you have a special order you’d like to place - we’d love to do our best to make it work!

$0.00

Online order pick-up: when & where

A Kindsugi Future Studio

Our studio houses our Kindsugi Upcycling workshops (very kindly funded by Merri-bek City Council via a Community Strengthening Grant), and is also currently the workshop where all of our upcycling crafting and creating happens!

Located: New location for 2026 to be announced soon.

Festive period opening hours:

As we’re now sold-out of our upcycled festive wrap and cards for purchase, we’ll be starting to move things out of our studio as we need to find a new home. We’re excited to re-open in the new year in a new home and with our next set of upcycled-with-love creations - we’ll keep you posted!

Need another time or help?

Don’t hesitate to reach out if a different arrangement would be helpful for you - we love trying to make things work where we can!

Email: hello@kindsugi.org

Call: Helen on 0406 533 304

A Kindsugi Future, a recently established not-for-profit social enterprise based in Merri-bek, has been busy designing and hand-crafting festive upcycled gift-wrap and gift-tags, using old books and atlases that have otherwise reached the end of their traditional life (i.e. sourced from local Merri-bek op-shops unable to re-sell them, usually due to being too old, worn or damaged).

Our artists and volunteers dedicate many hours to carefully unstitching the still in-tact pages from the books and atlases, and then paint, stamp, stencil, glue and sew them into their upcycled creations; this process making every item a unique and one-off piece.

How our gift-wrap and gift-tags are made

The gift-wrap and gift-tags aim to find new life and practical use for these pages, whilst also honouring their past.

As a not-for-profit organisation, A Kindsugi Future will also direct the proceeds from every gift-wrap and gift-tag purchased towards funding its other key mission; to support our fellow humans who are impacted by loneliness and social isolation, through the development and delivery of community-building initiatives.