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Palm Kim Son village - love of weaving craft

( Update: 22/08/2014 )

On the small road leading into the historic stone Phat Diem Cathedral, Kim Son (Ninh Binh) you will be astonished when they see countless bags, caps, boxes, shoes, cart, flower vase, flower basket ... all full of bamboo, a material that is not what the Vietnamese did not know ...

As the economy entered a period of integration, the traditional handicraft villages such as weaving, knitting rush more or less extinct. With the product output was shrinking, there are many artists were unable to maintain the traditional clan and their transfer to other occupations to earn a livelihood. Fortunately, in Kim Son retains traditional villages have nearly 2 centuries.

Kim Son people live in the cradle particular rush village hundreds of years ago should have held full essence of a true craftsman, a skillful hand, responsiveness, flexibility, agility and passionate career. These qualities help them meet the rigorous demands of even the market mechanism. It is natural, economic, social has created growing rush, rush processing in Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province is famous far and near, and the people at home and abroad consumers favored.

Every traditional rush here highlights the improved projection, projection beans, carpet, lane etc. ... not only for domestic consumption but also markets the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe favored. By the 90s due to the volatility of the Eastern European market, has seen every sudden rush transformation towards producing handicrafts including trays, boxes, plates, cups, bags, furniture etc. ... including many types, sizes, and designs with thousands of technical sophistication to meet the tastes of Europe, Asia, Africa.

To get a sedge handicraft products export standards, plant engineering and production of the Kim Son sedge rather extraordinary. It is a meticulous process, meticulous and accurate right from the papyrus plant, papyrus harvesting, selecting rush, rush chopped, sun sedge, sedge dyeing ... until the last stitch is knitting and finishing products. Typically polyascera techniques used spray adhesive coating sedge products, has helped shape a stable industrial designs, while improving the ability to resist mold, moisture products, especially in the transport process through thousands of kilometers by sea during shipment abroad. Whereby the art of Kim Son sedge ensure the quality to consumers, contributing greatly to improving competitiveness on international markets.

So far, the Kim Son seagrass handicrafts have been exported to over 20 countries and territories. And that success can not just stop here, but go further.

In the context of the global financial crisis will be even more difficult to influence the consumption of products from the rush, especially exports. Farmers and village artisans can rush will face many challenges threatening the existence and development of the profession, but with bravery and immense love for the craft up and down every row hundred years, people here still golden IEP faith will continue to include the day a traditional strong growth. Happy, glad this fact, but it is still wondering whether her son Kim Son sedge particular village and the other villages in Vietnam in general have eroded their traditional public before the storm technology and the rigors of the market? Does the time came to the assistance of the State to join forces with relative preservation and promotion of traditional villages, because there is also an ethnic culture?

Chi Na (thethaovietnam.vn)