조선 후기 무두질 기술과 피장(皮匠)의 체제 -생피장(生皮匠)과 숙피장(熟皮匠)을 중심으로-

Abstract

Mudujill is referred to the skills of processing row leather. It is of vital importance in manufacturing leather products as the type of leather depends on what is made and the skills of treating leather are associated with the quality of the finished goods. Even in the Governmental Craftsmen System that was variously divided by the different types of manufactured goods and the skills needed to make them subdivided leather craftsmen into several parts according to their functions. There must have been some reasons that the leather craftsmen, such as Sangpi-jang(生皮匠), Sookpi-jang(熟皮匠), Ongpi-jang(熊皮匠), Jeonpi-jang(猠皮匠), played different roles depending on the types of material and in the process of manufacturing. This paper aims to assume what their duties were by identifying the usage of Chinese characters referred to leather, terms related to Mudujill and the variety of the skills that were transmitted as simple skills used in the contemporary process of making musical instruments as well as exploring how the leather craftsmen were classified. Even though it is hard to fully understand the precise skills that they had, I could infer the difference between Sangpi-jang’s skills and Ongpi-jang’s through not only how to use leather depending on finished products but also the sang and yeol, the way used to treat the single material. It was supposed that Sangpi-jang was the craftsman in charge of increasing elasticity and thickness of animal’s row material and Sookpi-jang was the one turning the material into thinner and softer and dealing with the leather of decorations.