About the product
Yulart Korean Folk Art DIY Throw Pillow Cover contains 8 unique designs of Korean folk paintings chosen from over 5,000 collections of Korean Minhwa Museum. Provided with linework and background color, simply fill in the blank spaces with your own choice of color to create beautiful throw pillow to lighten up your living space and bring good luck into your house. Yulart Korean Folk Art DIY Throw Pillow Cover is made with natural high-quality hemp, which is a soft, skin friendly and child-safe natural fabric suited for home decoration. The product works best with Yulart Fabric Marker 12 Color Set, which is easy to use and has vibrant colors.

Korean Folk Art featured in this product are:

1. Dancheong
 - Dancheong is the traditional design that decorated important buildings, such as temples, palaces and academies. Dancheong is usually painted in five colors, red, blue, yellow, black and white, to symbolize five elements and preventing bad luck through achieving balance between the elements. 

2. Morando
 - Painting of peony blossoms. Peony blossoms were thought to be the 'king of all flowers' due to its size and beauty since three kingdoms period, therefore paintings of peony blossoms were exclusive to royals for long periods of time in Korean history. Nowadays Peony blossoms decorate people's houses as the symbol of wealth, prosperity, and authority.

3. Ubyonsungryongdo
 - Painting of fish becoming a dragon. Ubyonsungryongdo was a popular gift between students and scholars of the academies, for it symbolizes passing of important exam and achieving success in career.

4. Yeonhwado
 - Painting of Lotus flowers. Lotus flower conveys wishes for success and achievement to continue through generations. Lotus pod symbolizes fecundity, and at the same time passage of national exams.

5. Unryongdo
 - Painting of a dragon in clouds. Being the most familiar imaginary animal to Koreans, dragons are thought to be the guardian of the east who ruled the sky and weather. Painting of a dragon was used to decorate front gates of people's houses in hopes of achieving Five Fortunes on the New Year's Day.

6. Ilwolobongdo
- Painting of sun, moon, and five mountain peaks. Used to be placed behind the throne as a display of king's authority, this painting wishes for five fortunes of life(Longevity, Wealth, Health, altruistic life, and peaceful death) as well as welfare of the nation.

7. Hwajeopdo
 - painting of flowers and butterfly. Hwajeopdo often decorated women's rooms as symbol of harmony, prosperity, and longevity.

8. Hyodo
 - Painting of an owl. Owls were believed to have a habit of hoarding their prey, and stay awake at night to prevent it from being lost or stolen. Therefore, Hyodo usually decorated people's storage doors in hopes of bringing wealth. Furthermore, Owls were also thought to be the symbol of longevity for having cat-like appearance. People decorated elderly people's rooms with Hyodo, so that the owl's watchful eyes would protect elders from medical emergencies during the night. 

※ All images and designs used in Yulart’s products belong to Korean Minhwa Museum, therefore under protection of copyright law. creation, distribution or utilization of illegal copies is prohibited, as well as creation, distribution or utilization of derivative works of the image.

Key Features

1. High-quality hemp
 - Natural fiber with soft texture
 - Skin-friendly
 - Durable
2. 8 different designs
 - Wide range of selection according to age and preferred difficulty level

Additional purchases

1. Pillow Insert
 - 45*45cm
 - approx. 350g
 - Vacuum-packed
2. Fabric markers 12 color set
 - For all ages from children to seniors
 - Easy to use
 - Vivid colors
3. Fabric color tubes 12 color set
 - Recommended for elementary school students and older
 - mix with water to use
 - After dried, iron it in highest setting to preserve the color.
4. Fabric paint 8 color set
 - 20ml lidded container
 - Easy to store it after use
 - Vibrant colors on fabric
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Instructions & cautions

1. Color in the blank section with fabric paint or fabric marker.
2. When painting adjacent section, paint it after the previous section is dried.
 - This prevents colors from bleeding into each other.
3. Takes 20~50 minutes to complete, depending on user's age and intricacy of the pattern. 
3. After the paint is completely dried, place a sheet of paper over the work and iron it with highest setting.
 - This enables the finished work to be washable without fading colors.
4. It is recommended to hand-wash the finished work with neutral detergent, separated from other laundry.