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Decorative Jogakbo Shoes, 조각보 신발

Shoe
1992 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

One of two silk gauze shoes made of multi-coloured geometric pieces by Korean fibre artist Chunghie Lee. This shoe is predominantly grey silk gauze pieces with further small areas of patchwork in pink, red, yellow, green and turquoise.


Object details

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Object type
TitleDecorative Jogakbo Shoes, 조각보 신발
Materials and techniques
Patchwork silk gauze Triple-stitched seaming technique (<i>gekki</i>)
Brief description
Silk gauze shoe with small areas of patchwork, designed by Chunghie Lee, Korea, 1992
Physical description
One of two silk gauze shoes made of multi-coloured geometric pieces by Korean fibre artist Chunghie Lee. This shoe is predominantly grey silk gauze pieces with further small areas of patchwork in pink, red, yellow, green and turquoise.
Dimensions
  • Length: 28cm
  • Width: 11cm
  • Height: 8.5cm
Object history
Not designed to be worn, the shoes are meant to reflect the material, style and technique of traditional Korean shoes worn since the Joseon period, especially with its upturned toes (taesashin), the use of stiffened silk gauze (sa and ra) and to illustrate the traditional Korean patchwork construction technique (jogakbo).

Description at accession:

"9 April 1995
Purchased from the artist Chung-Hie Lee.
Grey shoe: 28.5cm (length), 10cm (height)
Red shoe: 28cm (length), 6.5cm (height)

PAIR OF SHOES
Silk gauze patchwork
Korean: b Chung-Hie Lee (Born 1945)
1992

These silk gauze shoes, made of geometric pathcwork pieces, imitate the style of traditional Korean shoes of felt and leather with upturned toes known as t'aesashin worn during the Choson period (1392-1910). Although not designed to be worn, the shoes also illustrate the chogakpo construction technique. This term refers to traditional Korean pathcwork wrpping clothes, which are made from the left-over scraps of material cut into squares, triangles and other geometric shapes and arranged together in mosaic patterns.

One shoe is predominantly grey silk gauze pieces with further small areas of patchwork in pink, red, yellow, green and turqoiuse. The other shoes is mainly red silk gauze with other areas of patchwork in pink, yellow, orange and green.

Chung-Hie Lee is a renowned and highly respected fibre artist.

For a short well-illustrated discussion of traditional Korean shoes, see: Choe Sang-Su: "Chaussures" in Revue Coree vol 17 (1985), pp 61-86."
Associated object
FE.280:2-1995 (Object)
Bibliographic references
  • Yang, Sunny. Hanbok-The Art of Korean Clothing. New Jersey: Hollym International Corp, 1997
  • Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6. This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021)
Collection
Accession number
FE.280:1-1995

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Record createdFebruary 3, 2000
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