If you have a trip to Hanoi and want to return to the traditional beauty, do not forget to visit the traditional craft villages still preserved here. It promises to bring you a lot of interesting experiences.
Bat Trang pottery village
Bat Trang craft village is about 14km from the city center, famous for its pottery craft, which has been branded for 500 years. When you visit the pottery workshops, you will be introduced to the production of flower pots, teapots or colorful statues.
Coming to Bat Trang pottery village, you should not miss the Pottery Market, where hundreds of shops are lined up, displaying a multitude of different pottery items, spoiled to be touched, viewed from household items such as bowls and dishes. Vases, flower pots, wall paintings, wind chimes and necklaces … or products with folk themes such as the farmer, the buffalo, …
Hat Chuong Village
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Cho Chuong hat market holds six sessions every month on even days of the month, the 4th, 10th, 14th, 20th, 24th and 30th of the lunar month. The market is held very early at about 6 to 8 o’clock when the market dissolves. This fair only sells hats and the ingredients for making conical hats. The main products are: Hats and materials for making hats. The old Chuong village hat is famous for its beauty, durability and variety of sizes and colors, which you can buy as a gift for your mother or sister.
Van Phuc silk village
Ha Dong silk, also known as Van Phuc silk, is an old silk weaving village with a history of thousands of years. Van Phuc silk has the oldest patterns in Vietnam. Although only about 10km from the center of Hanoi city, this village on the Nhue river still retains the characteristics of a traditional craft village such as the image of ancient banyan trees, water wells, communal courtyards, the afternoon still The market is held under the communal house before the communal house. Walking to the village gate, you can hear the “rattling” of the looms coming from the weaving workshops, which promises to bring you many unique experiences.
Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan village
In Chuong My district, Hanoi has a place that is famous for the rattan profession for a long time – that is Phu Vinh village. People from ancient times to now, all consider Phu Vinh land as “the land of clouds”, the hometown of clouds knitting with rattan handicrafts reaches the pinnacle of Vietnamese folk art. With many unique and creative products such as: rattan dish, rattan, rattan, rattan pot, rattan bowl … Come here, you will see the bustling atmosphere of a craft village.
Chang Son fan village
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30km from the center of Hanoi to the Northwest, nestled among immense rice fields, Chang Son appears with banyan trees, water wells, hydrogens, tiled roofs, village gates. countless strips of colorful paper fans are dried along the alleys in the village.
In Changshan, people make a variety of fans for a variety of customers, from mass produced fans, performance fans to more sophisticated fans such as calligraphy fans, decorative fans. All are meticulously produced in each step, from choosing bamboo, making nanoclaves, smoothing, chemical treatment, folding paper, paper cockroaches, painting, writing calligraphy on fabric, silk and then bringing to hong. dry… to get good looking and quality products.
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