☆Baecheop refers to a traditional method of making a scroll, frame or folding screen for preserving calligraphic letters and pictures. Baecheopjang refers to an artisan belonging to the Dohwaseo (Bureau of Painting).

It is said that picture mounting started during the Han Dynasty of China and developed further during the Tang Dynasty. Folding screens appearing in mural paintings of Goguryeo lead us to presume that the skill was introduced to the Korean Peninsula during the Three Kingdoms Period (circa 37 BC – 668 AD). The skill continued to develop during the Unified Silla (668 – 935) and Goryeo (877 – 1394) Periods. In the Joseon Period (1392 – 1910), artisans skilled in picture mounting were designated as Bacheopjang.

There are five types of picture mounting – making scrolls, making folding screens, making frames, binding and refurbishing.☆