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Wrap it the Korean way.

24 ways to wrap with a bojagi, from an everyday bundle to the wedding ham, each drawn step by step.

Before bags and plastic, Koreans of every class wrapped and carried in square cloths: books to school, food to the fields, goods on a peddler's back, a traveller's belongings on a shoulder strap, loads on the head. A cloth folds flat when empty, which suited small homes, and mothers sewed dozens for a daughter's trousseau. Because 袱 (bok, wrapping cloth) sounded like 福 (bok, fortune), people believed that wrapping something kept its luck inside, and wedding cloths especially carried wishes for a long marriage and many children. The care taken over the wrap showed respect for the person receiving it. Everyday use faded after the 1950s-70s.