Fabric
Mid-weight wool blend knit. Yarn-dyed pattern, no print. Lined through the body.
Daywear · Made to order
The Goryeo Celadon Baeja.
$215 to $295 · quoted in consultation
A cropped baeja that translates the soft sea-green of Goryeo celadon into a wool blend knit. The motif is the inlay pattern from a twelfth-century vessel, drawn in ivory yarn against the celadon ground. Cut above the natural waist with a goreum closure.
Celadon, in knit.
Occasion
Fall layering over a long jeogori. A morning at the museum. The lunch that gathers people who recognize the green at the door, and the afternoon that finds the wearer in conversation about Goryeo kilns.
The story
Goryeo celadon is the green-glazed porcelain that left the kilns at Buan and Gangjin between the eleventh and the fourteenth centuries. The inlay technique that Goryeo potters invented carved a pattern into the wet body and filled the carving with white slip before the glaze. The result was a sea-green vessel with a quiet ivory drawing beneath the surface. The technique was Korean. The achievement was singular.
This baeja reads the porcelain in yarn. The Seoul workshop yarn-dyes the ivory inlay against the celadon ground so the pattern lives inside the knit instead of riding on top of it. A mid-weight wool blend holds the body. Lined through to keep the silhouette clean over a jeogori or a modern blouse.
Worn at a fall museum visit. The friend who studied ceramic history catches the celadon at the elevator and the inlay at the coffee table. The conversation that follows is the reason a person buys a piece like this. The vest does not announce. The viewer arrives.
Hand-finished in Seoul. Inspected and fitted in San Mateo.
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