For the above reason, they changed clothes on a piece of cloth spread out before and after taking a bath and the cloth was called 'Furoshiki,' which is, some say, the origin of the naming.
そのため入浴前後に、広げた布の上で服を更衣したが、この布を「風呂敷」と呼んだのが呼称の起源という説がある。