Handicrafts’ characteristics

Cultural Unlike industrial production, handicrafts rely on the skillful and creative craftsmanship. The items, besides being applicable, bear in themselves the unique local spirit. The cultural content in handicrafts are, therefore, much more appreciated compared to large scale factory-made goods. They reflect vividly the culture, ideology and society of the time they are made. We can in some way understand the Era of the great king Hung Vuong through the bronze drums of Dong Son or Ngoc Lu cultures. In the modern days, handicrafts with decorative patterns of Vietnamese culture, history and legends have been exported broadly to other countries, […]

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How is silk made?

Silkworm is a caterpillar that eats leaves, and would have been harmful to the crops and eradicated had people not discovered that it produces delicate silk. Silkworms prefer mild weather, so it is best to breed them in spring and autumn. Their life-cycle is about 23-25 days, divided into 5 phases, through 4 molts. Larvae eat continuously, and their food is white mulberry. White mulberries are cultivated on fertile alluvial fields and cut twice a year in order for them to grow strong and fast, to supply sufficient leaves for sericulture. Leaves are picked either young or later in accordance […]

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