Korean Knots

Korean Knots

Traditional knots in Korea (Maedup, 매듭) have been used for various purposes like hunting tools, decoration, clothes and so on throughout Korean history. Its usage was first only limited to the royal families and later spread to common people. Korean knot is different from Chinese knots in history and form. In modern Korea, there are much effort trying to apply traditional knots to modern art.

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“One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)