Silk is a plain woven fabric created from raw material drawn from cocoons, woven with weft and warp, and is the only textile
created from animals. The ancestral tradition of raw silk weaving from our ancestors has been passed on to the present day.
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Silk is a plain woven fabric created from raw material drawn from cocoons, woven with weft and warp, and is the only textile
created from animals. The ancestral tradition of raw silk weaving from our ancestors has been passed on to the present day.
However, the reality is that the traditional silk making technology is disappearing due to mechanization and cost-saving
reasons brought on by industrialization. Therefore if we don’t preserve and protect our heritage, it will soon be extinct.. I have
researched the history of silk, from prehistoric times to the Joseon Dynasty, by examining silk related documents and
quoting original texts.
In addition, after examining the traditional succession of Dusanri silk, I have observed the manufacturing process,
examined genre paintings of Gisan as well as old pictures and have compared the legitimacy of Dusan silk. After researching
on original Dusanri traditional hand made silk method, I proposed a basic framework for searching a plan to pass on
this tradition and continuously preserve and protect it as an intangible cultural heritage.
If silk has the historical properties and legitimacy to be an intangible cultural heritage, I propose this plan to make silk
making techniques designated an intangible cultural heritage and continuously preserved and passed on.
“Annals of Joseon Dynasty” replica, which was carried out as a national policy project for 2012~2013 cultural restoration.
In order to mark the replica of part of the “Annals of Joseon
Dynasty“ records, a total of 97 royal palace books (3 books of King Danjong, 32 books of King Sejo, 2 books of King Yejong,
and 60 books of King Seongjeong), they used 13 new silks woven with a traditional loom using 10 marks of 2013 and 10
marks of 2013, and these were verified to have been used in the “Annals of Joseon Dyansty”.
A standard method of weaving Dusanri traditional silk were recorded in the “Annals of the Joseon Dynasty," and these
traditional techniques and methods have been passed on until the present day. And their historic legitimacy has been verified
through document researches. A necessity is felt to preserve this
tradition as an intangible cultural heritage and we need to look
into ways to educate people on traditional cultural heritage, make it into a tourism resource and industrialization.
Consequently, my research study was conducted under the following purpose.
I have looked into a plan to pass on Doosan Silk tradition as it is a local specialty in the sense that it is connected to cultural industry.
I proposed an alternative tourism development plan to create
tourism resources of traditional culture, thus creating jobs for local people and increasing income.
As the number of artisans producing funeral clothes is
decreasing sharply today, and we feel that tradition will not be passed on, we sense a dire need to invest and focus our
interests in historical and cultural resources.
I hope that the hand woven silk work will help increase the dignity and self-respect of grandmothers who have woven silk for many decades. Hand silk has superior quality and is very scarce, so I believe this is a great opportunity to think about the plans for silk weavers to pass on this tradition.
Furthermore, I hope that Dusanri Silk is revisited and contributes to revitalizing local culture. Based on this, I sincerely hope it leads to a path that will eventually attract tourists, contribute in beneficially commercialize culture, create jobs and increase local income in the region.