Etsuko Yamada comes from a family of furoshiki makers in Kyoto. After studying art she became a textile a designer and table coordinator. She is now art director for Kyoto Wa-Bunka Institute MUSBI in Tokyo, the first shop specialising in furoshiki in Japan, where she lectures and works on product development as well as on new ways of using furoshiki to suit the needs of today's world. After graduating from Rikko University, Kanji Okamoto studied under architectural photographers Tomio Ohashi and Shigeo Okamoto. He now works as a freelance photographer specialising in architecture.