In modern life, we tend too much towards civilization and industry. But somewhere in Thai Binh land, there are people who are more and more hard-working day by day, keeping the culture of the homeland and creating the brand of Thai Binh mat village.
Our country has many thousand years old land. where his father left intact vestiges. Each cultural beauty is living witnesses of history that we, as people of our generation, need to preserve and preserve. Thai Binh is known as the relic of many ethnic traditions with stories going down the history of our country. When traveling to Thai Binh, we will discover a lot of fun places from spirituality to sea tourism, but you should also visit the countryside on the northwestern edge of Thai Binh to explore a village. Ancient Thai Binh mat with the tradition of weaving mats thousands of years old.
Colorful mats
The village is thousands of years old
Hai Ho village, also known as Hoi village in Tan Le commune, Hung Ha district, Thai Binh province, is one of the most famous screening villages in the country. This Thai Binh mat village still retains the most intact ways to make a beautiful tradition like hundreds of years ago. There are many stories surrounding the birth of the Thai Binh screening village . Legend has it that around the years between the 10th and 11th centuries, under the reign of the Tien Le – Ly dynasty, Thai Binh mat village has begun to appear as a mat-making profession. At first, when making mats appeared, people did not have as many machines for weaving as now, but they were done by hand. The frame for weaving mats is a vertical frame, there is no horse to support the jute fibers, so the woven truss does not stretch, the mats are not woven evenly and it takes a long time to weave a mat, sometimes almost months. 
Belongs to the image of people sitting in bundles of jute bundles
Hundreds of years later, the new projection industry really developed and the Thai Binh screening village really flourished in the 15th century under the Hau Le Dynasty. During this time, status quo Pham Don Le had the opportunity to be sent to China to envoy, where he mastered the simple Chinese screening technique, shortening the weaving time and at the same time low restriction. most mistakes when weaving. Later, when he returned home, he brought what he learned was passed on to the villagers of Thai Binh mat , by using a back-up frame with a horse supporting the warp yarn to help the jute yarn stretch and swing much faster since then. The mat made is also much more stretch and beautiful. So far, Thai Binh screening village still developing, preserving the culture of thousands of years old of the nation.
Hard work to make a beautiful mat
As a traditional profession, Thai Binh mat village pays great attention to transmitting the craft of weaving mats to the next generations in the hope that this profession will not fade in the future when competing with modern plastic mats. now on. From a young age, the children here have learned how to make jute, bottle mats, weaving, everyday watching their parents and grandparents sun-shine, so their love of mats is always overflowing with the people of Thai Binh .
The villagers harvested jute
Hoi Hoi village mat has many different types from bean mat, cabbage, squash, slippery, vertical color, cashew … … with many different sizes suitable for many purposes. In order to make mats with Thai Binh brand name mats, two main materials are needed: jute fiber and sedge, jute trees are grown in alluvial beaches deposited by the romantic Red River. Jute tree is strong and supple.
Every day people here are still diligent by the loom
After the drying process, the raw material is put into the frame. Nowadays, people weave mats with modern machines, so the productivity is very fast, the time is only in each hour. The mat of Thai Binh mat village usually chooses to print on the projection of words or symbols of good luck such as longitudinal letters, flowers, portraits, monograms … to make these patterns is not easy, workers need to have. Many experiences and only mats in Thai Binh screening village can do it.
Exposure yard where communal house
Famous Thai Binh mat brand
Before much competition from the current projection type, but l ang projection Pacific has always maintained a certain position in the hearts of consumers. The new mats are white, the prints are bright red, the mats still smell sweet and fragrant with jute. Every year, Thai Binh mat village consumes thousands of different mats. When we go anywhere, we also come across Thai Binh mat brands nationwide. Nowadays, when many couples get married, when the woman comes to her husband’s house, she still carries a pair of royal mats with the letter of the riddle, this is a very long tradition from the villagers of Thai Binh mat.. The couple mat symbolizes a couple, the word auspicious symbolizes the happiness of love hundred years.
The familiar Thai Binh mat image appears everywhere
Thai Binh village, which is always so peaceful and beautiful, where the villagers project Thai Binh day and night still infuse the fire and love of the homeland into mats and bring them to every countryside on the S-shaped land. .
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