Bojagi Wrapping Cloths Dvd ââ⢠the Art of Korean Stitching ââ⢠Youngmin Lee

DVD Review: Youngmin Lee's Bojagi "How-to"

Just what are bojagi ?

They are wrapping cloths – used to embrace, protect or deport a variety of items.

Korean women of all social classes adult bojagi into meaningful forms of aesthetic expression during the Chosun Dynasty (1392-1910). Bojagi were used past royalty too as by the common folk. They were made with silk, cotton, ramie and hemp fabrics. They were foursquare, or almost square, in shape – to adapt the functions of wrapping, covering, folding, protecting as well as carrying.

Designs were printed, embroidered, quilted or constructed. The patchwork-constructed bojagi, characterized by distinctive geometric patterning, are the well-nigh popular in the gimmicky fine art globe and among material artists whose medium is needle and thread. Their appeal seems to come from the manner the small scraps of usually very colorful fabrics are stitched together to form larger cloths that echo modernist painting.

If you want to know more about – and how to brand – bojagi, check out Bojagi Wrapping Cloths: The Fine art of Korean Stitching a recently produced DVD past SDA memberYoungmin Lee, a San Francisco /Bay-surface area creative person.Lee explores traditional and contemporary hand stitching and seaming techniques in this informative and instructive 2-hr video.

A main focus of the video is on the patchwork wrapping cloth, which is arguably the most distinctive form of Korean textiles plus the 1 made and used by about Koreans – past and present.

In an introductory historical overview, Lee delves into identifying the types, purposes and materials used in the making of bojagi constitute in early on Korean civilisation. She relates these traditional practices to the wide-spread appeal of bojagi in the 21st century while identifying and demonstrating seams and stitches used to compose her sample projects.

The starting time two segments of the video describe 6 basic stitching techniques: whip/clouded, running, backstitch, pinch and ii decorative event stitches and 2 seaming methods: flat cruel and French. In every case, Lee provides information and demonstration of how each is practiced.

The final three parts of the video are projection-oriented. In these teaching and learning segments, Lee farther demonstrates how to connect seams and run up techniques to create a gift-wrap bojagi, a roofing bojagi and an all-over patchwork patterned bojagi.

She shows the design process, sometimes with graph paper, and repeats her demonstration of the techniques, thus reinforcing the nuts of the sewing and stitching. To consummate these bojagi, Lee highlights complementary finishing techniques, i.e., adding decorative corners and borders, making straps and attaching backs.

Of particular interest is the fact that Lee does all the sewing and stitching by hand, keeping her ancestors' historically-referenced handiwork alive in her contemporary creations – and in what she imparts to anyone wishing to make their own beautiful bojagi.

Her stride-by-footstep instructions and hands-on demonstrations make Bojagi Wrapping Cloths: The Art of Korean Stitching an of import visual resource for both the novice and the established needle artist wanting to learn more than nearly making Korean wrapping cloths.

Bojagi Wrapping Cloths: The Fine art of Korean StitchingDVD may be purchased via Youngmin Lee's website or via Youngminlee store onetsy.com

Curlicue downwardly the DVD page on Lee's website to view an excerpt of the video, produced by Studio Galli Productions and sponsored by Irksome Cobweb Studios.

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View a sample of Surface Blueprint Journal Summer 2014 issue (shown at right) that explores Korean textile arts – East & West – here. Youngmin Lee's work is featured in eXposure section of this issue.

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Mary Ruth Smith (Ph.D.) is Professor of Art at Baylor University(Waco, Texas) where she teaches inCloth Design concentration of the BFA program.

Smith is also an exhibiting creative person whose work has been included in numerous international and national exhibitions throughout her 37-twelvemonth instruction career.

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