Yeouijumunbo, 여의주문 (Cathedral Window)with Youngmin Lee

This class is part of the five-part virtual Hand Sewn Quilting Series II. Classes may be purchased à la carte at $75 or as a five-part package for a discounted price of $350. 

In Korean culture, yeouiju 여의주 means wish-fulfilling jewel, Yeouijumun 여의주문 means a jewel pattern, and Yeouijumunbo 여의주문보 is the name for a Jogakbo design that is found in the Joseon dynasty period (1392-1910) and in contemporary quilting. 

The first documentation of the use of the cathedral window in a quilt appeared at the Chicago World’s Fair in the US in 1933. The technique quickly became popular in North America in the 1930s. In her book, Cathedral Window Quilts, Lynn Edwards made the inference that this technique may have been brought to the United States from the East by missionaries in the early twentieth century. 

Each quilt block is made using a folded patchwork technique. This paper folding process is reminiscent of the folded paper fortune teller that many of us learned to construct in childhood.

Youngmin will teach students how to prepare, cut, fold, and connect units of fabric to create the base layer. She will then teach students how to embellish with additional squares of fabric and bakjwi maedeup (bat-figured knot). 

Date + Time

Thursday, June 5th, 2025, 12 - 2:30 pm ET

Location

Zoom, a link will be emailed to participants the day before class.

Cost

$75 for the individual class
$350 for the series

Materials

• Light weight, plain woven cotton (voile or lawn) or silk organza or sukgosa (Korean silk gauze)- One kind of fabric will be enough.

• (Fat quarter will be good to start base units)

• Contrasting color remnants for inserts and bakjwi (2”x 2” size or smaller will work)

• Needle (your favorite kind)
• Thread (cotton or silk-Youngmin likes to work with #50 wt.)
• Scissors
• Hera or craft awl (optional)
• Iron
• Rotary cutter
• Grid ruler
• Fabric marking pen
• Glue stick

Purchase a Materials Kit here- not all of the suggested materials for each class are included in this kit. Please look at individual class pages for the full list of suggested materials for each class.

Scholarships 

There are scholarship spots available for this workshop. Please email info@tatter.org to learn more.

Our Teacher

Youngmin Lee is a textile artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a BA in Clothing and Textile and an MFA in Fashion Design, Youngmin has presented numerous workshops, classes and demonstrations on Korean Textile Arts including workshops at numerous places such as the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Oakland Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, Mendocino Art Center and Textile Art Council of De Young Museum in San Francisco.

Youngmin’s bojagi work was shown at the Asian Art Museum’s Asia Alive program in San Francisco and other museums and galleries in the U.S. and internationally.

*All classes in this series will be recorded. A link to the recording will be emailed to all registrants following the live session. You may purchase the series as a whole even after the classes have begun. You will be emailed the recordings upon sign-up.