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rope
A rope is a group of yarns, Plying, plies, fibres, or strands that are plying, twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form. Ropes have high tensile strength and can be used for dragging and lifting. Rope is thicker and stronger ...
made of woven
straw
Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry wikt:stalk, stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the crop yield, yield by weight of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, ry ...
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It was an important household item used in pre-modern agricultural Korea.
History
Grey
stoneware
Stoneware is a broad class of pottery fired at a relatively high temperature, to be impervious to water. A modern definition is a Vitrification#Ceramics, vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refractory fire ...
(hard pottery) from the
Proto–Three Kingdoms era (2nd century BCE‒3rd century CE) demonstrates evidence of .
Ceramic sculptures of (straw shoes) from
Silla
Silla (; Old Korean: wikt:徐羅伐#Old Korean, 徐羅伐, Yale romanization of Korean, Yale: Syerapel, Revised Romanization of Korean, RR: ''Seorabeol''; International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ) was a Korean kingdom that existed between ...
(57 BCE‒935 CE) indicates the usage of in this period.
During the
Joseon
Joseon ( ; ; also romanized as ''Chosun''), officially Great Joseon (), was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years. It was founded by Taejo of Joseon in July 1392 and replaced by the Korean Empire in October 1897. The kingdom w ...
era (1392–1897), (a guild of the tribute merchants of ropes) was one of the (guilds of tribute merchants, the government-licensed purchasing agents) that had monopolistic rights for supplying government requirements.
During the
Japanese forced occupation (1910–1945), a large amount of along with (straw bags) were looted for military use by the
Imperial Japanese Army
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; , ''Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun'', "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan from 1871 to 1945. It played a central role in Japan’s rapid modernization during th ...
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was widely used until the 1960s.
In the 1970s, the use of waned with the spread of plastic, vinyl, and synthetic fiber ropes. faced a resurgence at the end of the 20th century due to growing interest in traditional handicraft in recent decades.
Uses
was used to make common items such as (straw shoes), (straw bags), (A-shaped carrier frames) and (cattle halters).
It was also used as (taboo ropes) to ward off malignant influences in Korean
folk religion
Folk religion, traditional religion, or vernacular religion comprises, according to religious studies and folkloristics, various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized religion. ...
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See also
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References
Agriculture in Korea
Korean crafts
Ropes
Straw products
Korean words and phrases
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