Kinds
Kind · By use
Jewelry wrapper
패물보佩物褓paemulbo
A paemulbo is a silk bojagi for wrapping jewellery in storage, best known from the palace of the last Joseon royals.
- Meaning
- 'ornament wrapper' (佩物 personal ornaments or jewellery + 褓)
- Made of
- 단 satin, 장지 paper, cotton
- Era
- early 20th c.
A silk cloth wrapping jewelry for storage in a box. The palace examples of Crown Prince Yeong's consort have 만자문, 국화문, 원수문, 박쥐 and gourd motifs on satin, and sometimes have the contents written in ink.
In museum collections
History & tradition
Joseon court; surviving examples early 20th c.
Jewellery and ornaments were stored wrapped inside boxes, and the wrapper itself often carried auspicious motifs such as 卍, bats and gourds. Six of the 133 Changdeokgung bojagi are jewellery wrappers. Those of Crown Prince Yeong's consort, Yi Bangja, survive with ink notes on their contents. Jewellery was also one of the required items of the betrothal 함.
Sources for this entry
함보函褓hambo