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Let’s join Vietlok Travel to check out 8 traditional craft villages in ancient Hanoi. If you are a tourist who loves to learn about traditional culture, here are some suggestions for those who are looking for a place to learn about traditional craft villages and Vietnamese countryside scenery.
1. Bat Trang Pottery Village
Located in Gia Lam, Hanoi, famous for its ceramics, with sophisticated products that exude the unique beauty of a Hanoi ceramic village. If you are planning to travel to Hanoi, visit the pottery village and make pottery with artisans who create sophisticated products. You can buy ceramic items as gifts.
2. Chuong conical hat making village
A traditional craft village in Thanh Oai, with a thousand years of history, Chuong conical hats are still preserved and promoted, not only bringing income to the local people but also attracting tourists from all over the world to visit and sightsee, especially those who like virtual life can take beautiful photos.
Coming here, visitors can see the experienced conical hat artisans in person, and learn how to make hats from the rudimentary manual stages to the finished hats, especially the hats with eye-catching patterns, so Chuong conical hat village tourism is being chosen by many tourists when traveling to Hanoi.
3. Van Phuc silk village
A place famous for silk products imbued with the traditional culture of a Vietnamese village, when visiting, visitors will encounter shops selling products located close together, very sophisticated products that visitors can buy as gifts. Especially for foreign tourists when traveling to Vietnam, the destination that tourists cannot miss is Van Phuc Silk Village.
4. Vong Com Village
A famous place for making com and squid, although located right in the inner city of Hanoi, this place has a famous com village of Ha Thanh.
Green com grains, wrapped in lotus leaves, have the fragrant flavor of the countryside. In addition, when traveling to Vong village, visitors can also enjoy dishes such as: Fried com cake, sticky rice with com, contributing to enriching the autumn cuisine of Hanoi. Visitors can buy com as gifts.
5. Quat Dong Embroidery Village
Up to now, it still retains the traditional quintessence of a Vietnamese village, exuding a rustic peace but containing many interesting and sophisticated things with sophisticated embroidery works.
In the craft village, each house has a small workshop. When coming here, visitors can take a walk on the street and visit the mothers and sisters who are diligently embroidering eye-catching paintings.
6. Son Dong Sculpture Village
This is one of the traditional craft villages, the cradle of carving statues and worship objects on wood. Although it has gone through so much time, this place still retains traditional carving techniques, exuding a unique delicate beauty of a traditional craft village in Hanoi.
7. Nhi Khe Woodturning Village
At the beginning of the village, visitors can hear the bustling sound of spinning wheels, the meticulous chiseling and carving of craftsmen, the craftsmen create shapes from the blocks as if breathing life into each product that is both durable and beautiful.
The products here are very diverse, such as: bowls, plates, spoons, mortars and pestles, to sophisticated decorative items such as wooden statues, wooden paintings, and handicraft toys.
8. Chuon Ngo Mother-of-Pearl Inlay Village
A place that preserves the quintessence of Vietnamese culture, although it has gone through many years, this place still preserves and develops the mother-of-pearl inlay craft. Coming here, visitors will meet talented artisans who create exquisite works. Visitors not only visit but also chat and listen to the exquisite mother-of-pearl inlay of a traditional craft village in Hanoi.
9. Quang Phu Cau Incense Village Hanoi
Located about 35km from Hanoi, it is one of the traditional craft villages with the profession of producing aromatic incense. Coming here, visitors will meet incense artisans, visitors can make aromatic products by hand, and listen to stories about the formation of the incense village, from the way of making raw materials to the production of aromatic products, not only bringing income to the people here but also being a destination that attracts tourists to visit, especially young people who come to check in for themselves beautiful photos, or foreign tourists who come to visit and learn about traditional Vietnamese craft villages.
Currently, traditional craft villages are indispensable in the treasure trove of Vietnamese culture, where the humanistic values of talented craftsmen are preserved and developed. Each craft village has its own nuances, creating diversity and richness for the Vietnamese national culture.
