Meet Lee Eun-ji
Lee Eun-ji (@eunjicrafts) is designing modern bojagi, a Korean textile art form that originated as wrapping cloth with everyday utility. Known for her “Harmony” collection, Eun-ji leverages complimenting colors, fabrics, and cuts that convey deep cultural meaning by drawing upon Korean heritage and generational values. Her collections have been featured in art exhibitions all across Asia.
About the Collection
The “Patchwork Harmony” collection by Lee Eun-ji brings angularity and daringness that welcomes the future by way of the past. It’s a distinctly modern Asian collection inspired by ‘jogakbo,’ (‘Patchworks’ in Korean) a Korean fabric artistry style with humble origins, pioneered by Korean women traditionally as a way to repurpose and give new life to leftover fabrics as everyday utility–wrapping gifts, packing goods, covering food. Used as a way to express dedication and love for family, now its aesthetic and creativity has come to be recognized globally as modern textile art.
Lee Eun-ji's “Patchwork Harmony” collection draws inspiration from historical Korean traditions and symbolism, distilling traditional Asian concepts of family, prosperity, balance, and harmony into aesthetically pleasing shape and color patterns–each color and angle coming together with meaning.