Project Description

Keum-boo on a Spoon Bowl

Keum-boo is an ancient Korean technique used to fuse pure gold onto a pure silver surface. In Korean culture, this was applied to eating and drinking vessels so that the food or beverage passed over the purifying gold and brought good luck to the user. In this tradition, make a functional spoon of metal clay and embellish the inside of the bowl with gold sheet in the process known as keum-boo.