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This study is purposed to extract natural colors of bamboo forests which can be used as design motif. Many of noticeable designs for fashion design have started from the western perspective or so-called naturalism, which stems from a motif from their own nature. The research topic is bamboo forests as a Korean natural object to satisfy an Eastern taste and fashion designs in a Korean style. I try to have a deep analysis about bamboo forests as a Korean natural object. The symbolic images of bamboo forests were a mosaic of vitality, integrity and holiness. In addition, I selected and studied 16 pictures of the forests of bamboo. In this process I could also distinguish 64 colors of bamboo forests. I took my steps further when I separated these bamboo colors from a temperate/subtropical zone and those from a tropical zone and analyzed the colors' arrangement in 40 hue circle, Hue & Tone and Value & Chroma. I noticed that the colors of a bamboo forests from a temperate/subtropical zone were much different from those from tropical zone. The temperate/subtropical zone has four distinguishable seasons and various weather changes while the tropical zone is usually hot and rainy all the time. The difference in weather also causes the difference in color of bamboos from each zone. The tones of bamboo colors are usually arranged in a middle, but some are close to dark tone. As a result, the hues of bamboo forests were GY(59％), G(23％), Y(9％), YR(6％), BG(2％) in Munsell's 40 hue circle. In addition, the tones of bamboo forests were d(27％), s(19％), dk(13％), sf(13％), b(9％) using PCCS.