Craft Villages in Vietnam

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Embroidery pictures in Da Lat

Skilled embroidery artisans also bring out vivid features not possible in other art forms. Scenes such as the precarious crossing of a ferry boat, fisherman gathering near a quiet riverside wharf at dawn, or a lone pine on a grassy hill overlooking a distant village all require attention to the smallest details. Cultural traits and unique characteristics can also be seen in the inspirational needle-work.

Nostalgic Beauty - All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Xuan Lai – Gia Binh people are always proud of their bamboo craft, but no one remembers when the craft came into existence. The village patriarch, however, feels that this craft must be hundreds years old considering that they already saw all villagers involved in making bamboo wares since they were children. At that time, those patriarchs had to learn by themselves to create utensils for serving the daily life

The echo of the Baranung drum

For the skin of the Baranung, which is played by hand, they would use the skin of a male goat with horns 3 to 5 cm long or a female goat that had given birth seven times. The Cham residing in and around Phan Rang, a coastal town in south-central Vietnam, still preserve seventy-two drum songs used in religious and cultural festivals. In search of the last of the Cham drummers, I took a fact-finding trip to that area.

The poetic hats of Vietnam

The conical hats of Tay Ho are famous for their thinness, gentle color, the subtleness and the beauty in the sewing. Thanks to those factors, they are favorable products of many customers. The conical hat, for a long time, is a familiar feature of the Vietnamese. It not only serves as a kind of hat to protect the wearer from the bad weather, but also as an addition to the beauty of Vietnamese woman.


Lung Noi traditional textile

The major ingredients for brocade weaving are indigo-dyed cotton yard and dyed silk. Particularly, there are 6 main colors on a Brocade of Tay people including blue, red, yellow, purple, white, black. From these main colors, the weaver concocted strong and light colors depending on the type of each product idea. The arrangement of patterns on brocatelle is various, resulting in special and different products.