Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 5. (Budapest, 1962)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Ferenczy, László: The Collection of Corean Industrial Art. A Gift of the Corean People's Democratic Republic

Fig. 7. Jewel-set. 17 — 19 century. Photo by Miklós Bálás Women's shoes are bordered with coloured embroideries. These are worn on holidays only, otherwise women wear light hempen slippers. Nowadays both men and women use shoes of rubber. Let us mention also the winter-caps of fur, covered with black or light silk, both for men and women. Under the heading of attire we have to mention the puppets dressed in Corean fashion. Corean puppets originate mostly from puppet-theaters or costumed plays (e. g. Santedogam and Koktugaski). At present their importance is increasing, as that of all complete works of art, introducing old costumes, dances of the Corean people and ancient plays. They are preserved generally in small cases of glass as decorations of homes. From the five puppets the engaged pair is clad in the characteristic Corean holiday attire described above. Several puppets are playing old musical instruments. Thus the female figure of the puppet-pair in the piece called "'Song of love" plays an old stringed musical instrument and one of the finest puppets represents a woman with old fashioned hair-dress, playing an instrument similar to a lute (Fig. 5.). A puppet performs a peasant dance and a woman plays the accompaniment on a drum. Corean people loved very much to decorate with embroidery such utensils as money-purses, bags, cushions etc., upon which they embroidered birds and different other animals and usually characters meaning long life and plenty as well. Embroidered pictures have also a very long past in Corea. They were executed with the greatest skill and with artistic taste. The five silk-embroideries of the collection, some of them made after the works of famous Corean painters, represent beautiful landscapes of Corea and the life of its people.