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Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum
The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum () is a textile museum in Seoul, South Korea. It was founded by Dr. Young Yang Chung and inaugurated in May 2004 by Sookmyung Women's University. It was closed for renovation in December 2017. It is expected to reopen in September 2019. Its exhibits are not limited to Korean embroidery; there are also items from other areas in East Asia (notably Chinese embroidery Chinese embroidery refers to embroidery created by any of the cultures located in the area that makes up modern China. It is some of the oldest extant needlework. The four major regional styles of Chinese embroidery are Suzhou embroidery (Su Xiu ... on imperial robes) and elsewhere. See also * Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum, also in Seoul References External links * *Former official page Google Arts & Culture 3 online exhibitions {{Embroidery Art museums and galleries in Seoul Decorative arts museums Museums established in 2004 Textile museums 2004 establishme ...
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Sookmyung Women's University
Sookmyung Women's University () is a private women's research university in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1906, Sookmyung is Korea’s first royal private educational institution for women. Sookmyung is one of the world's largest female educational institutes. The university's name is derived from the Hanja characters of ''sook'' and ''Myung'', which mean "elegant" and "bright" respectively. Timeline *1906 ''Myungshin Girls' School'' established by Imperial Consort Sunheon. *1948 Re-established as "Sookmyung Women's College". *1955 Raised to "University" status. *1995 Establishment of the General Development Plan for 2006, the 100th anniversary of the school's foundation, and the second founding of the school. *2000 The first Korean university to receive ISO 14001. *2003 Completion of the Renaissance Plaza and the Second Foundation Campus. *2004 Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum inaugurated. *2004~2005 Chosen by the Ministry of Education & Human Resources Dev ...
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Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities by GDP, sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Tokyo Area, Tokyo, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Paris metropolitan area, Paris, and London metropolitan area, London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the Government of South Korea, South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. During the Joseon dynasty, Seoul was officially designated as the capital, surrounded by the Fortress Wall of Seoul. I ...
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Textile Museum
A textile museum is a museum with exhibits relating to the history and art of textiles, including: * Textile industries and manufacturing, often located in former factories or buildings involved in the design and production of yarn, cloth, and clothing * Agriculture and farming related to textile materials such as silk, cotton, and wool * Functional use of textiles such as for clothing and bedding * Textiles used in decorative arts, such as for fashion, carpets, tapestries, embroidery, lace, and quilts Asia * Bhutan Textile Museum * Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum * Kurdish Textile Museum * National Textile Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia * Textile Museum (Jakarta) * Textile Museum Sarawak Canada * Textile Museum of Canada Europe * Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź * Fashion and Textile Museum * Helmshore Mills Textile Museum (closed) * Museu dos Têxteis, Castelo Branco, Portugal * Museum of Textile in Česká Skalice * Museum of Textiles and Industry of ...
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Young Yang Chung
Young Yang Chung is a textile historian and embroiderer. She earned a Ph.D. at New York University in 1976, with a doctoral dissertation on the origins of embroidery and its historical development of China, Japan, and Korea, and has lectured worldwide on the topic of East Asian embroidery. Through lectures, demonstrations, writings, teaching, workshops, and exhibitions of her work, she has endeavored to foster appreciation of an art form often stigmatized as "women's work" and to challenge the notion of textiles as "minor arts". Chung received an honorary doctorate degree from Sookmyung University, Seoul, South Korea in 2001 and she was awarded a Distinguished Alumna Achievement Award by New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at the 2013 Doctoral Convocation. Chung has dedicated her life to the textile arts, not only as an embroiderer and teacher of this art form but also as a historian of traditional East Asian textiles and a coll ...
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Korean Embroidery
Korean embroidery techniques and artifacts have a long history, but there is the most evidence from the Joseon Dynasty, after the 14th century in Korea. This article talks about the history, styles, preservation, artists, and examples of screens, costumes, and domestic wares of this exacting and beautiful art form. People used needles made out of bones of fish or animals to sew and weave animal skins and the bark or leaves of trees. ''Chasu'', the Korean word for embroidery, was a method of cultivating beauty in every corner of daily life. ''Pokshik chasu'', ''kiyong chasu'', ''kamsang chasu'' and Buddhism, Buddhist ''chasu'' are the four types of Chasu. * Pokshik chasu is the embroidery on clothes. * Kiyong chasu is the embroidery decorated on various materials used in the king’s palace. * Kamsang chasu represented a type of artistic piece. * Buddhist chasu came from Buddhism. Buddhist chasu was used in the statues of Buddha or various temples. Chasu has begun from the prehis ...
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Chinese Embroidery
Chinese embroidery refers to embroidery created by any of the cultures located in the area that makes up modern China. It is some of the oldest extant needlework. The four major regional styles of Chinese embroidery are Suzhou embroidery (Su Xiu), Hunan embroidery (Xiang Xiu), Guangdong embroidery (Yue Xiu) and Sichuan embroidery (Shu Xiu). All of them are nominated as Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage. History Chinese embroidery has a long history since the Neolithic age. Because of the quality of silk fibre, most Chinese fine embroideries are made in silk. Some ancient vestiges of silk production have been found in various Neolithic sites dating back 5,000–6,000 years in China. Currently the earliest real sample of silk embroidery discovered in China is from a tomb in Mashan in Hubei province identified with the Zhanguo period (5th–3rd centuries BC). After the opening of Silk Route in the Han dynasty, the silk production and trade flourished. In the 14th century, th ...
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Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum
The Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum () is an art museum specializing in Korean embroidery located in Gahoe-dong, Jongno-gu, central of Seoul, South Korea. It was established by Han Sang Soo (, born ), who holds a title as a ''jasujang'' (, embroidery artisan), a profession recognized as an Important Intangible Cultural Property by the Cultural Heritage Administration of South Korea. See also * Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, also in Seoul * Bukchon Art Museum * Bukchon Hanok Village * List of museums in South Korea References *한상수 자수박물관 External links * at ''The Chosun Ilbo ''The Chosun Ilbo'' (, ), also known as ''The Chosun Daily,'' is a Korean-language newspaper of record for South Korea and among the oldest active newspapers in the country. With a daily circulation of more than 1,800,000, ''The'' ''Chosun Ilbo ...'' Art museums and galleries in Seoul Korean embroidery Textile museums Art museums and galleries established in 2006 2006 ...
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Art Museums And Galleries In Seoul
Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, technical proficiency, or beauty. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes ''art'', and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of "the arts". Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, ...
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Decorative Arts Museums
Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, art and taste are the main subjects of aesthetics, one of the fields of study within philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is contrasted with ugliness as its negative counterpart. One difficulty in understanding beauty is that it has both objective and subjective aspects: it is seen as a property of things but also as depending on the emotional response of observers. Because of its subjective side, beauty is said to be "in the eye of the beholder". It has been argued that the ability on the side of the subject needed to perceive and judge beauty, sometimes referred to as the "sense of taste", can be trained and that the verdicts of experts coincide in the long run. This suggests the standards of validity of judgments of beauty are intersubjective, i.e. dependent on a group of judges, rather than fully s ...
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Museums Established In 2004
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the arts, science, natural history or local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually. Since the establishment of the earliest known museum in ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preservation of rare items. Museums originated as private collections of interesting items, and not until much later did the emphasis on educating the public take root. Etymology T ...
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Textile Museums
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, and different types of fabric. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not the only manufacturing method, and many other methods were later developed to form textile structures based on their intended use. Knitting and non-woven are other popular types of fabric manufacturing. In the contemporary world, textiles satisfy the material needs for versatile applications, from simple daily clothing to bulletproof jackets, spacesuits, and doctor's gowns. Textiles are divided into two groups: consumer textiles for domestic purposes and technical textiles. In consumer textiles, aesthetics and comfort are the most important factors, while in technical textiles, functional properties are the priority. The durability of textiles is an important property, with common cotton or blend garments (such as t-shirts) able to last ...
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2004 Establishments In South Korea
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the characte ...
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