Yu Yulan
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Korean ethnicity, born in March 1955, a native of Yanji City, Jilin Province. From childhood she studied the making and embroidery of traditional Korean costume under her mother, Jiang Shanyu; in 1980 she opened her own clothing shop and has since devoted herself to making Korean costume and to its transmission and development. She often went into communities and villages to learn techniques from veteran artisans, and later established her own garment factory. Over the years she has taken an active part in various promotional and display activities for Korean costume, taking care to collect materials of distinctive Korean style from ethnic festivals and ceremonial events and to apply them in costume making.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Korean Costume, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She lays stress on distilling the spiritual connotations of Korean costume and passing them on to her apprentices; she has trained more than twenty highly skilled apprentices and designated the fourth- and fifth-generation inheritors of her family.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Korean Costume Ⅹ-109
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