1940s Korean Vintage Wallpaper — Jeongwoong (original)

Jeongwoong was discovered in a late Joseon-era hanok near Imgok Station in Gwangsan District, Gwangju. Its structure is a ribbon trellis — diagonal ribbons crossing to form an X-shaped grid, with a scroll-and-vine medallion anchoring each intersection. Between the grid cells sits the main motif: a teardrop-shaped vase from which leaves and petals explode outward in the baroque-rococo manner, flanked by palmette scrolls derived from 17th and 18th-century Lyon silk design. What distinguishes this wallpaper technically is its textile emulation: the outlines of each motif are rendered not in smooth lines but in stair-stepped pixel edges, deliberately replicating the appearance of warp and weft threads crossing in woven fabric. The silver-grey palette completes the effect — on the wall, paper reads as cloth. The pattern traveled from Lyon silk looms through 19th-century Jacquard mass production, into the wallpaper industry, and finally through Japanese printing networks to a Joseon hanok in the 1940s. GOSATE’s reproduction digitally restores the original pattern, printed on premium non-woven base paper manufactured in Sweden.   Roll size : 50cm by 10M Material : Non-woven paper Made in Sweden, Designed in Korea