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Jogakbo · Cloth

Hemp

삼베麻布 (마포)sambe (be)

Plain-woven hemp, the oldest Korean everyday cloth, used for folk bojagi.

Meaning
삼 'hemp plant' + 베 'woven cloth'.
Used for
Everyday folk bojagi; large palace 5-폭 hemp cloths; painted 당채보 (V&A)

Plain-weave bast cloth from hemp (대마) stems, also called 베. 안동포 is the best-known variety. 삼베짜기 became 국가무형문화재 No. 140 in 2019.

History & tradition

Neolithic onward; Andong is the best-known centre

Hemp thread has been found on a bone needle at a site of about 4500 BC, and fine hemp cloth was graded by thread count under Silla rank rules. It was Korea's everyday cloth for clothing and ritual use, and today much is woven for burial clothes.

삼베짜기 (Andong hemp weaving) became National Intangible Heritage No. 140 in 2019.

Sources
  1. encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0026602

Sources for this entry

  1. encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0026602
  2. encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0076953
  3. gogung.go.kr/ebook/access/ecatalogt.jsp?callmode=admin&cati…
  4. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O22296
  5. elle.co.kr/article/1884960