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Oiled-paper food cover
식지보食紙褓sikjibo
A sikjibo is a food cover backed with oiled paper so that the food stays clean and the cloth unstained.
- Meaning
- 'oiled-paper wrapper' (食紙 'food paper', i.e. oiled paper + 褓)
- Made of
- Cloth plus oiled paper
- Era
- Joseon
A food cover backed with oiled paper (식지/기름종이, 유지 油紙) so that food does not stain the cloth. The paper is sometimes cut-out (오려내기) as decoration. The court equivalent is the 맛보.
In museum collections
History & tradition
Joseon; palace and households
Oiled paper was a common Joseon material for floor covering and waterproofing, and backing a food cover with it kept grease off the fabric and dust off the food. The court's version is the 맛보: 44 of the 133 surviving Changdeokgung bojagi are paper-backed food covers. Household examples sometimes have cut-paper patterns visible through thin ramie.
Researched with medium confidence.
Sources for this entry
상보床褓sangbo