Scroll and mounting belong to the precious national culture and art that the Korean ancestors created and developed together with Korean painting.
A scroll is a form of Korean painting with pictures or words that are mounted for hanging down or rolling.
A scroll is decorated on its border with thin strips or cloth that goes with the picture, and a horizontal bar is fixed to the bottom of the scroll so that it unrolls when it hangs down.
Korean paper is pasted to the back of the scroll for hardening, and paraffin is spread all over the back and rubbed for preventing folding lines.
A scroll amplifies the national taste in adorning pictures.
It also helps long storage and easy handling of Korean painting works.
Mounting is ornamentation of appearance of pictures including their backs and borders.
Vividly taking the national form from early ages together with Korean painting, the intrinsic national painting, mounting has developed, divided into scroll, folding screen, picture album, album of calligraphic works etc., according to the mission and purpose of pictures, individually with their own features.
Mounting plays an important role in enhancing the beauty of paintings and it provides an important guarantee for keeping painting works to posterity.