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Motifs

Motif · Plants

Flowers

꽃 / 화문花文kkot / hwamun

Embroidered or pinched blossoms, the everyday vocabulary of auspicious wishes on bojagi.

Wishes for
Auspicious blessing

Embroidered on 수보; 화문보 is a pattern category; 꼬집기 (pinched) flowers are also documented.

History & tradition

Joseon households and court

Flowers and fruits are the commonest supporting motifs on 수보, read as auspicious wishes; 화문보 is a pattern category. Besides embroidery, a pinching technique (꼬집기) gathered the cloth itself into flower shapes.

Sources
  1. encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0023523
  2. elle.co.kr/article/1884960

Sources for this entry

  1. encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0023523
  2. elle.co.kr/article/1884960
  3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojagi