| "Passion For Korea" Tour Day 10 (April 14, 2006) Pan Asia Paper Museum www.papermuseum.co.kr |
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| The wooden box frame (in the bottom right) is used to make hanji. A mat of bamboo sticks (similar to, but a little bigger than, the bamboo mats used to make sushi) is placed at the bottom of the box frame. |
| Next, you swish the box frames back and forth from left to right in the murky water containing mulberry (dak) pulp. |
| When you take the bamboo mat out of the frame, there will be a layer of pulp on the mat. Here, the master hanji maker is taking the sheet of pulp off the mat. |
| The sheet of pulp is then put through rollers (see bottom of photo) which sqeezes out excessive water. When it comes out of the rollers, it is placed on the stainless steel table, which actually is like a hot frying pan. After letting the sheet dry out on both sides, you lift the sheet off the table and you have hanji. |
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| We explored the city of Jeonju for 2 days. Jeonju is the capital of the North Jeolla Province and has a population of about 622,000. It is considered the center of art and culture in Korea. We started our culture education by visiting the Pan Asia Paper Museum, where we each made our very own sheet of hanji (traditional Korean paper). The traditional technique for making hanji is called Wae Bal Ddeu Gi and is time consuming. Here, we used the modern techinique to make a sheet of hanji in about 5 minutes. It was simply amazing. |
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