Jacket
1992 (made)
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The jacket and its accompanying trousers form an outfit tailored in typical Korean style by the textile artist Chunghie Lee. Geometric patchwork forms the sleeves and trouser legs, while the jacket front is of figured silk gauze. The curved shape of the sleeves, short length of the body and plain collar all derive from pre-modern dress in Korea. Chunghie Lee, a graduate of Hong Ik University in Seoul, made this ensemble around 1993.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Patchwork silk gauze |
| Brief description | Silk gauze patchwork jacket designed by Chunghie Lee, Korea, 1992 |
| Physical description | Woman's jacket made from turquoise-green silk with the right front side made of a figured silk decorated with roundels enclosing crane motifs. The right sleeve is made of patchwork in pale pink, yellow, green and orange, while the left sleeve is partly patchwork, with the rest in a plain green fabric This jacket and the accompanying trousers (FE.281:2-1995), are made in a patchwork technique which is typcially employed in the creation of traditional Korean wrapping cloths (jogakbo). It follows the traditional cut of Korean jackets (jeogori). |
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| Object history | Part of a trouser and jacket outfit FE.281:1, 2-1995. |
| Summary | The jacket and its accompanying trousers form an outfit tailored in typical Korean style by the textile artist Chunghie Lee. Geometric patchwork forms the sleeves and trouser legs, while the jacket front is of figured silk gauze. The curved shape of the sleeves, short length of the body and plain collar all derive from pre-modern dress in Korea. Chunghie Lee, a graduate of Hong Ik University in Seoul, made this ensemble around 1993. |
| Associated object | FE.281:2-1995 (Ensemble) |
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| Accession number | FE.281:1-1995 |
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| Record created | February 3, 2000 |
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