Wood Tags
                                                      
                    Douglas-Fir
                   Pseudotsuga Menziesii

Note: due to a small market and limited demand we've had to temporarily suspend Wrapping Bags production. We do plan to revive this project in the future, but at this point the market just doesn't seem ready to embrace the concept at the level required for commercial success. For the next few years it's back to everyone making their own gift bags, which is easy to do!

Every Wrapping Bag comes complete with one of our original Douglas-fir wood gift tags, branded on both sides with our logo and space for "To" and "From" gift information. Each tag is hand crafted from recycled Douglas-fir timbers, reclaimed from building demolition sites. These wood tags make Wrapping Bags the world's most reusable form of gift wrap. Not only are the bags reusable, but so are the wood tags with erasable gift information.

The lumber currently used in our tags is more than 100 year old first growth BC Douglas-fir. The timbers were originally used for whiskey barrel racks, which were then recycled for the renovation of the famous old Seagram's barrel works in Kitchener / Waterloo, Ontario into the award winning Seagram Lofts Condominium project in Uptown Waterloo. The excess material was headed for the landfill until it was salvaged by Wrapping Bags!

Unique Bag Number
Every Douglas-fir tag is branded on the back with a unique bag number. This number can be used with our Follow Your Bag service to follow your bag's gift giving progress around the world. If you are the first person to log a bag, you will also have the opportunity to give the bag a name.

Sand and Reuse
Each bag comes with two pieces of 80 grit sandpaper, making it easy and convenient to sand the "To" and "From" information off your tag and reuse it. Each piece of sandpaper can be used several times without removing it from the bag.

Douglas-fir, or pseudotsuga menziesii, is also commonly known as Coast Douglas-fir, Oregon Pine, Oregon Douglas-fir, Douglas Tree or Interior Douglas-fir. Interestingly, Douglas-fir is not a fir tree at all, but a "Pseudotsuga" or "False Hemlock".

Named after the Scottish botanist, David Douglas, who introduced many of BC's native conifers to Europe, the Douglas-fir can reach up to 85 meters in height in it's native west coast habitat and 42 meters in drier interior areas.

Douglas-fir can be identified by it's distinctive three-forked bracts between the scales on it's cones, flat fragrant and friendly needles (the boughs are soft to the touch when you run your hand up and down them) and furrowed bark. Cones are 5 to 11cm long and green when young, turning to brown as they age.

Douglas-fir has long been an extremely desirable tree for lumber due to it's characteristic density, stiffness, durability and strength.
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