Support for Wooden Roller

This is a frame for propping up hongdukkae, or wooden roller, when smoothing fabric with a wooden roller. The frame was made by joining together rectangular wooden rods, on which a fulling block was placed on a tilt. The wooden roller placed on the sloping fulling block was supported by a pillar on either side of the frame. The wooden roller for rolling fabric was placed on the tilted fulling block and beaten using fulling sticks, which led the wooden roller to rotate and the fabric to be evenly smoothed out. The frame for a wooden roller shown here was made of four wooden rods joined with mortise and tenon joints in the shape of a rectangular frame, into which a fulling block was placed. To support the wooden roller, two pillars were fixed at a right angle on both side rods of the frame, about one-third of the way from the back. The side rods of the frame were longer than the gap between the two cross rods. The corners of the rectangular rods were rounded.