Like other villages in Phu Yen, the people in Hoa Da hamlet, An My commune (Tuy An district) mainly live on the rice plants, and also from this abundant material resource, ricepaper-making has long appeared here and become their traditional occupation passed through many generations up to now. Hoa Da rice paper has long been famous for the…
With the material resource of banana fibres and rattans available in the local area, through the hands of skillful workmen in the occupation villages of Vinh Phu, Phu An, An Nien, Dong Phuoc (Hoa An commune, Phu Hoa district) and My Thanh, Dong Loc (Hoa Thang commune, Phu Hoa district) With the material resource of banana fibres and…
It is not as busy as other traditional craft villages in Hong River delta region. The endurance and quietness have made Do Xuyen become a traditional craft village with unique products. Nobody know when the village's bamboo weaving occupation begins but it has been helped Do Xuyen people survive for many flooding seasons and become an important supplementary…
Phu Tho is land of palm trees so the development of conical hat occupation is inevitable. However, for many last years, the hat production of the province has been in small-scale. Unlike conical hats of Chuong village in Ha Tay province or Hue�s city lata-nia leaf hats, Phu Tho conical hats characterize by simplicity, harmonious lines, durableness and…
Have you ever stopped in a small shops in roadside to sip a cup of tea in freezing winter? To keep warm for the cup of tea, the seller use a handicraft product of Viet Nam countryside. It is U Am - traditional teapot warm keeper. Someone said that it is the product of nostalgic people. In modern…
Doan Ket Hamlet of Hung Lo commune, Phu Ninh district has been well-known for processing Mien (glass noodle), My (rice noodle), bun (rice vermicelli) and rice paper sheets for hundreds of years. The hamlet's products haven't been yet given trade name but they have won customers' trust with quality. For years, the craft village has been existing humbly…
Talking to carpentry, people first think about Dong Ky village in Bac Ninh province or La Xuyen Village of Nam Dinh province. The economic value of these craft villages reaches to billions of Dong. But many small-scale carpentry villages have been existed to make life more beautiful. Minh Duc Carpentry Village in Thanh Uyen commune of Tam Nong…
From a distant view, Tang Tien village is looming under bamboo hedges, mixing into green fields flooded with sunlight. The old village lane takes you to houses with mossy tiles and to famous master craftspeople on the Cau riverside. Indigenous to the countryside of the Northern Delta area, two kinds of bamboo called Giang (ampelocalamus patellaris) and Nua…
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…
Kites are considered as the symbol of peace and desire of freedom. In celebrating Thang Long – Hanoi 1000th Anniversary, a kite fête at Hue Festival 2010 will be held with various displaying activities like kites installation art, procession of kites or being incorporated in the traditional long dress show at the two ancient capitals - Hue and Hanoi and…
