Fabric
Crystal flowers on fine wire, silk cord throughout, hand-tied tassel.
Accessory · Made to order
The Crystal Bouquet Norigae.
$95 to $175 · quoted in consultation
A norigae with a cluster of crystal flowers as the juche, wire-mounted on a silk cord. The shape reads bouquet at distance and resolves into individual crystal blooms at speaking distance. Hand-tied tassel beneath.
A bouquet, at the goreum.
Occasion
A wedding-day hanbok at the paebaek where the elders sit on cushions. The bridal portrait that asks for one large deliberate ornament. The norigae for the bride who wants one bright cluster at the chest.
The story
Norigae is the ornament tied at the goreum, an old form that lived in the Joseon court and in the household. The wedding tradition asked for the largest, most deliberate norigae of the year, the piece that registered the day from across the room. A crystal cluster carries that register in modern cloth and modern materials.
Crystal flowers wired into a cluster at the central element, silk cord throughout, hand-tied tassel below. The cluster is sized to be read as a single bouquet from across a ballroom and as individual crystals at speaking distance. The wirework is hand-finished. The cord is silk in a tone chosen to set off the crystal.
Worn at the wedding-day paebaek where the elders sit on cushions and the bride bows. The first thing they read is the chest, the second thing they read is the face. The cluster lands at the goreum and carries the day. A bridal portrait where the chest holds the photograph.
Hand-finished in Seoul. Inspected and fitted in San Mateo.
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