Good fortune in a wrapping cloth

By Joan Schoettler

Subjects: Korea, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Separation (Psychology), Perseverance (Ethics), Korea, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Wrapping cloths, Juvenile fiction, History, Mothers and daughters, Sewing

Description: When Eomma's mother is chosen by the emperor to be a seamstress in his court, Eomma vows to learn to sew the beautiful Korean bojagi, or wrapping cloths, just as well so that she will also be summoned to the palace and be reunited with her mother.