One of the fun things about knotting is making an exact replica of an old knot relic and imagining what kind of person it was to have this relic.
There is a work of art with a meticulously tied knot in the glasses store at my in-laws' house.
I was grateful that my mother-in-law readily gave me her cherished glasses case to work on, but the words she spoke about the case were even more precious.
It was a glasses case that my mother-in-law made for my father-in-law by embroidering on a piece of paper that my father-in-law had written.
While looking at glasses, I got the idea of ​​making a collection of Joseon Dynasty scholars' knotted accessories, so I tried making a belt for the robe, ear pouch, a fan weight, and a badge.
I thought about having people carry around a house number instead of their current resident registration card, but I don't think it would go well with a suit.
Nowadays, men only wear suits, ties, shirts, and cufflinks to look stylish, but we don't know how stylishly men in the Joseon Dynasty dressed up in every detail.
We can guess by looking at the relics that remain today or by looking at the clothes and accessories of the commoners of that era in Hyewon's folk paintings.
The men's ceremonial belts were also colorful; high-ranking officials used red belts, scholars used green belts, junior officials and junior officials used gray belts, and junior officials used purple belts.
Every time I touch and look at my ancestors' belongings, I think they lived a truly stylish life, and I think it would be a good idea to study and research that.


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Knots were also widely used in men's and women's accessories during the Joseon Dynasty.
Men's tassels and tassels completed the look of the dopo, an outer garment worn when going out, and the resident registration card, similar to today's resident registration card, also needed tassels and tassels to be attached to the waist belt.
In addition, various knots and tassels were needed, such as the fan knot that only those who held official positions could tie, pocket strap tassels, eyeglass case straps, brush pouches, and tobacco pouches.
There were many knot decorations on military uniforms, and even swords, swords, lances, and gunpowder barrels had to be decorated with knots and tassels.
Knots for women include norigae, earring tassels, pocket knots, jobawi, tassels used to decorate nambawi, tassel decorations for ayam, waist belts, incense pouches, and spoon holder knots used by young women preparing for marriage.
In addition, musical instruments were decorated with tassels and knots (tassels and knots used on flags and palanquins), and gold and silver-crowned court clothes were decorated with things like tattalgisul (a decoration made of silk strings draped over the back of old clothing).


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The names of the knots are all taken from various objects, flowers, and insects that we see and use all the time.
That is, ginger, butterfly, dragonfly, chrysanthemum, bee, chick, magpie, cicada, bean, jeogori, button, lotus bud, etc., and the Seok knot, named after the character 'Seok' in the Buddha pattern, seems to have been used mainly in temples.
In this way, we can see just how close our traditional knots were to people's lives from the names of the knots.


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The name of the raw knot comes from its shape, which resembles the shape of ginger, with three small circles. In the Daegu and Namwon regions, it is called the Jeongja (井字) knot.
It is the basic knot for many knots, including the Gajibangseok, Seoksi, Samjeongja, Janggu, Chick, and Beolmae knot. Since it is possible to tie it sideways as many times as you want as long as you can use only the right braid, it was often used in China to express the Chinese characters (壽, 福) in knots.
Our country's four-color knot and railing knot follow the same principle.


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The Garakji knot is a knot used in both the East and the West. It is made into a circle like a Garakji or spread out to form a flower shape and used to decorate curtains.
It is made of complementary colors to create a decorative effect similar to beads, and because the string is short, it also serves to hide the connection between knots when connecting to another string.

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