Maedeup
Maedeup · Flowers
Plum blossom knot
매화매듭梅花maehwa maedeup
A five-petalled knot shaped like a plum blossom, used on children's clothes and fan pendants.
- Meaning
- Five petals of a plum (Japanese apricot) blossom; can also be seven-petalled; 두벌/세벌/네벌 variants.
- Wishes for
- Takes its meaning from the plum blossom, the first flower of spring, which stands for endurance through hardship.
- Cord
- One cord folded in half (sometimes doubled cords).
- Used on
- inner ties of baby clothes, 매화 선추 fan pendants, 귀주머니, 향집 노리개 (scent-case norigae)
- Learn first
- Ginger knot (cloverleaf knot)
- Level
- Involved
Step-by-step instructions for this knot are still to come.
History & tradition
Joseon
The plum-blossom knot has five petals, sometimes seven; tied six or eight times with a ginger knot at each corner it forms a hexagonal or octagonal blossom. The AKS dictionary records it chiefly on children's clothes and 매화 선추 fan pendants, and on 귀주머니 and scent-case norigae, noting that few survive and that the multi-wrap forms come undone easily.
Rare in surviving pieces; revived in modern classes.
Sources for this entry
도래매듭dorae maedeup