OIMU - Natural Incense Sticks (Winter)

OIMU is a Seoul-based design studio, whose projects reinterpret forgotten cultural values and traditions. Their natural incense sticks are handmade through a labour-intensive process harnessing traditional Korean techniques, where skilled craftsman knead the raw natural materials and extract the dough elaborately by hand before air drying it in the wind over several months.

'Winter' draws on the the crisp air of winter dawn, tempered with mellow notes of sandalwood. 110 sticks. Burn time: approx 30 minutes each. "Holding pure white candles in hand, today too, the snow is falling heavily." - Bang Jung-hwan, <눈 오는 새벽> 中 -