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Embroidered Folding Screen with Calligraphy and Still-life

Lee Yeon-sook1965

Sookmyung Women’s University Museum

Sookmyung Women’s University Museum
Seoul, South Korea

This six-panel folding screen is embroidered with Chinese characters for longevity and fortune(壽福), as well as still life motifs such as clouds, roof-end tiles, ceramics, gold crowns, and bells. This is a work completed by Lee Yeon-suk in her second-year of the art student of Professor Kim Hak-gi created this embroidery piece. Each panel included colorful designs of Chinese characters for longevity and fortune(壽福) which are embroidered with colored threads, gold and silver threads and glitter. Embroidery techniques such as satin stitch, decorative stitch, long and short stitch, and couching stitch were applied.

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  • Title: Embroidered Folding Screen with Calligraphy and Still-life
  • Creator: Lee Yeon-sook
  • Date Created: 1965
  • Location Created: Rep. of Korea
  • Physical Dimensions: w366 x h162.7 ㎝
  • Type: Embroidery
  • Rights: Sookmyung Women's University Museum
Sookmyung Women’s University Museum

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