The recognition of Chuyen My and Son Dong craft villages as members of the World Crafts Cities network represents international acknowledgement of the cultural value, artisanal techniques, creativity and sustainable vitality of Vietnam’s traditional craft villages, he said.
The 2022 Hue Kite Festival is currently getting underway in the former imperial city of Hue (central Vietnam) to honour the traditional craft of kite making which has existed in the locality for centuries.
PSNews - It takes an artisan nearly two months to make a scarf from lotus silk. This is a hard job, especially when taking silk from thousands of lotus stems is very sophisticated. With the aim of improving the productivity while preserving the traditional craft, a group of students from universities in Hanoi have built an automatic lotus machine.
PSNews - People of Chang Son villages are always proud of their traditional craft. From the 19th century, French people started to display Chang Son's wooden fans in exhibitions in Paris, elderly partisans of Chang Son recounted.
