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Patterns

Pattern

Concentric

동심원dongsimwon

Patchwork in nested frames around a shared centre.

Meaning
Concentric circles (동심원 同心圓 'same-centre circles').
Used for
Wrapping cloths and covers

Concentric composition: frames of patches nest around a centre, square within square.

In other cloths

Ramie
Silk
Blue and red
Five colours

History & tradition

Joseon to mid-20th century; ordinary households

Frames of pieces nest around a common centre. The name is a classification label from a 2005 design study of 90 jogakbo photographs, not a term the makers used. It was listed but not analysed and overlaps with the pinwheel/radial type.

Researched with low confidence.

Sources
  1. koreascience.kr/article/JAKO200520828183166.pdf