Index 20 Objects

The Korean Line

Make big challenges small.

Ten Korean crafts, each drawn as a single fine line. A moon jar is too wide to raise in one piece, so the potter throws two bowls and joins them at the waist — the seam shows on every real one. A jogakbo is pieced from the offcuts left over from other work. A bojagi is a flat square that becomes whatever it is asked to carry, then flat again. Each is a big thing made by making small things.

Every word printed on these garments is English or romanised. No Hangul appears on any of them, and none will until a native reader has signed it off.

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The Korean Line

Thrown in Two Halves — Moon jar

It Takes the Shape of What It Holds — Wrapping cloth · Hoodie

Made of What Was Left — Patchwork wrapping cloth

It Has to Breathe — Fermentation jar

The Colour They Called Kingfisher — Goryeo celadon

Carved Out, Then Filled — Inlay

Grey Under White — Slip-decorated stoneware

Nothing Added — White porcelain

A Thousand Years If Kept Dry — Mulberry paper

Colour That Keeps the Wood — Eave painting

It Takes the Shape of What It Holds — Wrapping cloth

Thrown in Two Halves — Moon jar · Hoodie

Made of What Was Left — Patchwork wrapping cloth · Hoodie

The Colour They Called Kingfisher — Goryeo celadon · Hoodie

It Has to Breathe — Fermentation jar · Hoodie

Grey Under White — Slip-decorated stoneware · Hoodie

Carved Out, Then Filled — Inlay · Hoodie

Nothing Added — White porcelain · Hoodie

Colour That Keeps the Wood — Eave painting · Hoodie

A Thousand Years If Kept Dry — Mulberry paper · Hoodie