Handicraft villages in Hanoi in 2011

HANDICRAFT VILLAGES IN HANOI

Vong Village - com making HTML clipboardLocation: Vong Village is in Cau Giay District, 7km from centre of Hanoi. Characteristic: This village is famous for com making

Le Mat village - snake village HTML clipboardThe name Le Mat, according to history, appeared before the time of Le Canh Hung (1740 -1786), but it was just acknowledged as a commune level administrative unit from the beginning of Nguyen dynasty, means that in the early of 20th century.

Flower villages around Hanoi
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Characteristic: The area of Tay Ho, Quang Ba, Ngoc Ha, Huu Tiep, Dai Yen were the flower-growing land. Overtime, Hanoi has come into its times of modernization and industrialization. The traditional surrounding flower villages have been turning into "villages within the city".

Dinh Cong Jewelry Village HTML clipboardLocation: Dinh Cong Jewelry Village is located on the To Lich river bank is Dinh Cong Thuong Village, also called Dinh Cong kim hoan (Jewelry). It belongs to the present Thanh Tri District, Hanoi. Characteristic: The name of the village shows us it is already famous for jewelry handicraft.

Bronze casting village of Ngu Xa HTML clipboardLocation: In Ba Dinh District, Hanoi. Characteristic: The village of Ngu Xa appears as a small peninsula near the Truc Bach Lake. Itï¿½s where many sophisticated bronze products were produced for the needs of the ancient capital of Thang Long.

Bat Trang Pottery Village HTML clipboardLocation: Bat Trang Pottery Village is located in the south east of Hanoi, passing Chuong Duong Bridge turns right and go about 10km along the dike of Red River. Bat Trang belongs to Bat Trang Commune, Gia Lam District, Hanoi. Characteristic: This is a pottery village with a half-millenary historic development.

Van Phuc Village - silk making
HTML clipboardVan Phuc Silk Village - Vietnam traditional villages
Just 15km to the west of Ha Noi is a place renowned over centuries for its silk-making and silk products –The village is in the centre of Ha Dong Town, Ha Tay Province, and the biggest silk production village in Vietnam. The sound of looms has filled Van Phuc for a thousand years, and is a touching sound to villagers when returning from far away.

Yen Phu Incense Village HTML clipboardLocation: Yen Phu Incense Village is in the Yen Phu city gate, located on the edge of the mysterious West Lake in Tay Ho District , Hanoi. Characteristic: Besides the ornamental fish breeding, inhabitants in the village have done incense for long time

Kieu Ky Village - gold leaf making HTML clipboardKieu Ky - a suburb commune in Gia Lam district, has been well known for two traditional professions: production of thin gold-leaves and leather-made goods

Dong Ky Village - wooden furniture making
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Location: in Tien Son district, Bac Ninh - a village has still preserved several historical and cultural relics.

Characteristic: Its annual festival is organized from the 4th to the 6th of the first lunar month in memory of tutelary god's great merit - who was nominated Thien Cuong De. The tutelary spirit is the person who is of both high position and exploit in teaching the handicraft to the whole area on which basing people's lives here have been being improved better and better. Thus, he is specially respected one of employments he taught everybody is making crackers. This job itself is the one forming the well known festival - the competition of making and burning crackers.

Dong Ho Village - folklore painting HTML clipboardDong Ho Painting or Vietnamese woodblock prints (Vietnamese: Tranh Đông Hồ) refers to a distinct Vietnamese folk art originating in Dong Ho Village, Song Ho Commune, Thuan Thanh district of Bac Ninh Province (north of Hanoi).

Chuong Village - conical hat making
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Place: Chuong Market (Chuong Village) Phuong Trung Commune, Thanh Oai District, Ha Tay Province

Characteristics: Sell and display Chuong Village, a big village of Phuong Trung Commune, is famous for conical hats making long time ago and Chuong Market Festival is one of the biggest one in the region.

Quat Dong Village - embroidery
HTML clipboardLocation: Along Highway No. 1A about twenty kilometers south from Hanoi, is the patrimonial land of traditional embroidery: the Quat Dong commune, Thuong Tin district, in Ha Tay province. Scenes formed by the highly-skilled artisans of Quat Dong have won the hearts and minds of people around the world with their traditional needle-work in this most-famous embroidery village.

Chuyen My Village - pearl inlaying HTML clipboardLocation: in Chuyen My commune, Phu Xuyen district, 40 km from Hanoi, Ngo Ha village (or another name is Chuon Ngo) is known as a famous Mother-of- pearl inlaid village for thousands years. Mr. Truong Cong Thanh, a military mandarin under Ly period is the great-grandfather of this career.

Phu Vinh Village - bamboo items HTML clipboardPhu Vinh's introduction: Before 1960 - the age of cooperative associations, when Phu Vinh households were active in creating different patterns and making rattan and bamboo products to sell at streets in Hanoi for both the local people and the foreign tourists.

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