VIETNAM
PROFESSION VILLAGES
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Ceramics making appeared in Vietnam long time ago. The Northern
has been famous for Bat Trang, Hai Duong ceramics, the Southern
for Binh Duong and Dong Nai. Minh Long ceramics is famous
not only for quality but also various patterns customized
vivid and clean – cut colours. Cham Binh Duc village of the
Middle with household items as pots, earthen cooking pots,
water jars, etc. Till now are made by hand with revolving
tables. Cham ceramics has another different point is kilnless
use-items thrown in heaps on grounds and baked by fire.
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COCONUT:
…Shadow like coconut – tree, long hair teased by breeze…
The familiar song verse full of romantic, lyric has come into
our minds easily with coconut-tree image- symbol for the Southern.
Coconut-tree is a useful one. Its water, trunk, leaves and
fruit has separate uses. Nowadays, there are more artistic
items from coconut so unique and clever as spoons, chopsticks,
tea-pot sets, night-lamps, masks, souvenirs, etc.
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Whosoever goes up the highland wants to bring mountainous
gifts back as souvenirs: a brocade cloth for the elders, dress
for sisters. Brocades are hand-woven, so painstaking with
vivid flower-patterns and colours. Cotton-trees are self-grown,
fibres are dyed by Tang village of H’re minority in Kontum
highland, Lat village, Mai Chau – off Hanoi 160 km, are called
country of brocades.
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STONE CARVING:
Artistic stone village at Ngu Hanh Son (Five Fingers Mountain),
Da Nang province is famous for stone carving. With skillful
and laborious hands of carvers, rugged stones become pretty
pepper-mills, unique tea-pot sets, impressive buddha statues,
daring lions standing on fire balls or eagles spreading wings
in the wind, etc.
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Help me a pair of mat, quilt, earrings, etc. The mat clings
to lives of Vietnamese people. There are many famous mat weaving
villages. Quang Nam mats followed traders roaming all over
the world, Dinh Yen of Hau River area with night mat markets.
Nowadays, besides rush mats, there are also nylon, bamboo
mats, mattresses, etc. Therefore, rush mats with fanciful
clever flower patterns seem vanishing.
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Vietnamese countryside with village bamboo hedges make peaceful
beauty. Just run out about 20 km towards Hoc Mon, Cu Chi districts,
you can visit traditional profession village of Xuan Thoi
Son. Various, plentiful products from rattan are bamboo baskets,
chopsticks, panniers, more sophisticated are chairs and tables,
hammocks. Especially, Binh Duong has places shaping straight
bamboos.
If you want to choose a rattan product, you can search at
Ba Thang Hai, Pasteur, Nam Ky Khoi Nghia street area. Rattan
products are very durable, tough and ciry. Rattan materials
have to go through many stages like cleaning, termite killing,
dehumidifying, bleaching according to kinds, and finally varnished
or gloss painted to enhance its beauty.
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EMBROIDERY:
Dalat, famous tourist city, has been known for its painting
embroidery on cloths. It is rumoured that student bought a
painting embroidered with a beautiful and lively girl. That
whenever he looked at it, he dreamed about her. Then she turned
into a real girl. Dalat embroidered paintings don't come true
but carry spirit of people and scenery.
Exported embroidering products like dresses, pillows, tablecloths,
curtains, etc. currently are favoured by foreigners. In HCMC,
Dong Khoi – Nguyen Hue street area are noted for hand-embroidering
products for visitors.
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Lacquered wood or mother-of-pearls carved products with harmonious
colours. Elegant beauty create nobility for the surrounding
space. Overseas Vietnamese, foreigners and even local people
like these unique products to give for relatives, using or
interior decoration – maybe a painting, flower vase, table
and chair set or worshipping chest. Binh Duong is a famous
place with many confidential artists. Lacquer art, a traditional
Vietnamese profession is being kept and developed.
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