Phu Vinh village

Located downtown Hanoi 35 km to the southwest village of Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan is known as one of the famous traditional handicraft villages .

In 2002, Phu Vinh village was officially recognized as a traditional village but the job of Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan , the former name of Phu Hoa Trang has been known for about 400 years . The artisans in the village after that , four hundred years ago and earlier , Phu Hoa Trang ( the former name of Phu Vinh ) appear three he specializes in making products " forest forest products " such as basketball , RA , RE , lanes . .. serve the needs of her neighbors . Over time , gradually spreading profession , " covered " the whole village , and the whole society. With a long tradition , in Phu Vinh family has rattan workers , young men from the youth , women and the elderly , young children are able to participate in a certain stage of career . Hereditary, so how far away the dead alive with Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan , workers , and job help for many families in the village of eternal prosperity. Previously, bamboo products from the villagers mainly baskets , happy , time, place, bags , boxes ... serving utensils daily life . But , life is growing , the demand of residents on a high from the handicraft products such as rattan ornaments , lampshades , curtains , portrait, landscape, horizontal, sentences as well as it was born.

For a complete product , the bamboo and rattan production stage requires careful , picky from raw material selection . For this item , but the tree is the main raw material , rattan . Rattan tree alignment will be selected , generally reaching five meters in length , the new split and easy knitting . Want straight stems , the plant roots clouds to put it straight. Where long roots must dig deep planting hole to put it straight to the roots . Experience shows that , when put like that straight roots , stems are climbing though , is swept into another tree when twisted fibers split clouds kept straight , not twisted .

Cloud processing techniques including 2 stages : drying and split rattan . Rattan and bamboo are sugar crops vulnerable to termites eating , so the processing of raw materials is also very important . Bamboo and purchased after drying options are taken away . When drying , smoke too much red clouds will , too little smoke and redness . When dry , the fibers having rain clouds lose its beauty, but the sun is losing brightening clouds fibers . Fiber to the water cloudy yet dry skin withered , dried up so that it looks shiny soft skin loss . Therefore, drying cloud requires proper technique , can not neglect , must constantly care , such as raising silkworms that track .

Then the clouds will be brought to split into thin spokes . Split spokes cloud is a difficult technique , requiring highly skilled workers . Depending on the product that the workers have a separate split spokes , spoke at the cleaved fiber into round tubes , split into seven or nine at thin spokes . For more technical split spokes are thin hands , the workers have to be a new experience . Clouds that circle the trunk itself , inside the core should be split is not room left will be sliced thick , thin spot . With chopped peel , the workers will have to get the hard part of the stems and cores . After splitting stage , the spokes are polished to bring smoother rattan fibers, flat ball . Table broaching the village itself is made very simple , only consisting of a tin plate , pierced with holes of different sizes are clamped by four piece of bamboo . May be thinned after exposure to the sun to dry, to get all the water in the clouds strand out. Nan cloudy yet dry to the skin was withered , dried up so that it looks shiny soft skin loss . Therefore, drying cloud requires proper technique, can not be neglected and continuous care.

Cloud dried again plunged into water and then taken away again for drying fiber plasticity clouds , drying will continue to make plastic rattan fibers and softer . For products with a variety of colors , the Phu Vinh village has its own secret coloring . The spokes cloud after splitting , drying , drying will be embedded in the oak leaves chopped pot was boiling . Embedded fiber spokes water 15-20 times and then dried in the sun to dry . The spokes will be soaked oak are yellow . Want shiny black , the clouds are difficult muddy soak for three to five days . This is a purely natural coloring , no chemical products help to Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan products are always environmentally friendly, no harm to human health and the use of high -strength color 30-40 years .

 Today, more than 400 households Phu Vinh profession , with nearly a million workers accounted for 90 % of the households in the village . The Phu Vinh constantly searching , constantly innovative product design innovation , quality threads to keep credibility with customers . From knitting to weaving tradition is one hot , hot couple , hot, three , with creative minds and skillful hands , the village of Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan has created hundreds of different ways as knitted woven herringbone , the flower and color matching , well- shaped pattern , create more sophisticated product designs , are highly aesthetic. 1000th anniversary of Thang Long , Phu Vinh gave people the strength and technical sophistication to your knitting a giant vase . This is the gift of the village with its talented rising enthusiasm anniversary celebration . The average height of 4.1 m have been knitting for knitting different ways , on the surface there are many patterns, symbols of Vietnam thousands of years of cultural history . The surface shape of the bottle is the One Pillar Pagoda , Temple of Literature and the Tortoise Tower villagers Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan want to send a message to future generations is to preserve and maintain the traditional values .