Finest silk grave clothes

Finest silk grave clothes

Clothing worn on the dead body is called ‘grave clothes.’ It is said in Korea that a lunar leap month is a good time to prepare funeral clothes, and a family with an elderly person tends to prepare funeral clothes in a leap month.
Since a leap month is an extra month added to the usual 12 months, it is also called ‘empty month,’ ‘extra month,’ and ‘spare month.’
Korean ancestors believed that in a lunar month, ghosts go to heaven and take a rest after working for 12 months. So they did things that they could not usually do because of ghosts, such as tend graves and make funeral clothes.

Originally, grave clothes were made using the dead’s clothes and there were no specific standards about the material.
To show the highest courtesy to the dead, people made formal clothes with all earnestness, using as good a fabric as their circumstances allowed.
Of course, there were times when silk grave clothes were only an object of envy for common people and lower-class people who could not afford silk, a luxurious fabric, for various reasons.
Just by looking at the grave goods and clothes occasionally unearthed from an ancient tomb, you can see the wealth and status of the tomb owner or the tomb owner’s family.

Owners of tombs from which silk grave clothes were unearthed often came from families with wealth and power, such as royal or aristocratic families.
Since clothes made of the highest quality fabric had the highest formality, they were wedding clothes. Grave clothes were made to be as good as wedding clothes.
When parents passed away, people prepared the best clothes they could get for their parents, and they wore mourning made of a rough hemp fabric as a symbol of sinners who did not take good care of their parents and let them pass away.
Even for noble families with wealth and power, they made grave clothes with silk and mourning clothes with a rough-textured fabric. Like Prince Maui in hemp clothes, people wore rough mourning clothes and greeted mourners, feeling sorry for their deceased parents.

You can show your filial piety and do your duty to your parents on their last journey by preparing grave clothes made of Hamchang Silk, a fabric woven with natural threads using a technique that is most similar to that used in traditional silk-weaving in ancient times.
You can ask anything about our Hamchang Silk grave clothes or Hamchang Silk Shroud. We will answer your inquiry with sincerity.