How to Make Korean Traditional Headband

Korean Traditional Craft Class 

Week 2 : How to Make Korean Traditional Headband 

On the second week of  the Korean traditional craft class the craft we made Korean traditional headband “Baet Ssi, Daenggi” (In Indonesian we called it “bando”). This traditional headband is commonly used as a finery on head when someone wears Korean traditional clothing, Hanbok.

This finery is actually for children, but in Saeguk Korean dramas we often see the girls or women  wearing this kind of headband too. 

It’s not that difficult to make this traditional headband.  We need two different colour ribbons,  each size is five centimeters wide. We also need an ornament ( for this poject,  our teacher Mss. Lee Go Eun has prepared a Korean embroidery ornament . We cannot find it in Indonesia, but we can substitute with other ornament that you can make it by yourself ). Besides that we need a plan headband, glue, and double tip.

Now, let’s start our project. First,  cut the ribbons with the size length  15.3 cm.  Make two pieces for each colour like the picture above.  And then,  put the ribbon with different colour one above the other , adhere them with glue.  Folded each tips of the ribbon  (use double  tip to stack them ) to shape it into a rectangle. Do the same with the two other pieces of the ribbon.  So we have two rectangles.

The next step, stack both rectangles, glue them together with crossed-position.  Put the ornament on it. Take the plain headband,  coat the surface of the headband with ribbon.  Then,  attach the rectangle we made in the middle of the headband.  And the beautiful headband is ready !

 with the teacher Mss. Lee Go Eun