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Palm hat - A lots of buyers, No one makes

( Update: 02/11/2017 )

Mr. Nguyen Van Lan (79 years old, Hamlet 5, Hung Phuc commune) remembers: "I know the thought is also the time to see grandparents, parents woven their hats. On that day the whole village knit hat, house knit hat, people knit hat. Busy that people have to compete to buy new leaves enough raw materials to do. Hat is the main income of the people here and the field is just a side. 

"That day every yard was filled with palm leaves. Dry leaves filled the house. Where to go, selling the market. From morning to noon, from noon to noon, only take breaks at meals but not enough to sell. This "palm" is lightweight and cool. In Laos, the sun burns like roasted, not spend with a hat, "Lan recalls the golden age of knitting hat leaves.

Lan is one of only three people living in Hamlet 5 to remain with his father. According to Lan's instructions, we went to Mr. The house closed down. Nguyen Van Que - one of the three who earn a living by knitting a hat, we were explained why this job is disappearing from here.

"This job has many stages, it takes a lot of energy and requires people to be very persistent while the profit is not worth much. Now, a day goes to add 150 thousand. Meanwhile, those who knit good one day to actively knit two caps, calculated to be 50 thousand, "Que said.

Efforts to spend much, while the income is so bubbling that people do not salty that his father left. The number of people who are attached to the profession is just to make fun but not to live with the profession. Mr. Que, old Lan weak, not enough to work in the field around the palm with palm, bamboo, fiber to earn double silver coins to buy preserves.

Hanging his hat and making a mold, he sighed, "If you work hard, you can not earn a bowl of rice. Now I do where people come to buy it. Only fear is not that the power to do, but not sold.

However, those who are considered the "last resort" of the weaving hat in Hung Phuc are also facing the risk of not sticking to the job even though their products are still consumed. "Hats are very rare now. Because few people make the side of Quy Hop people do not sell palm leaves anymore. If sold, the price must increase up to half now, that is 150 thousand VND / bunch 100 palm leaves. The price increases, while the price of each hat is only 32,000 dongs, calculated to be only fifty thousand dong, "Lan said.

There is no power to make so many leaves drying palm leaves of his Lan on the beams also take 2 years to use again. In that gas, no one wants to learn the job of his father. No job, Ms Hiep - baby mulberry Lan to take care of children rent but definitely not learn to knit hat.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh (Hamlet 5) confided: "Now catching crabs, ducks very much each night also earn 50 thousand. Those who have the power to go to work, add lake, earn 100 - 150 thousand per day. Knitting hat is hard, but the profit that only profits to buy the cake. Not only me, but the village ni out of the other people do not know knitting hat anymore.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong, who specializes in termites and who buys the leaf hat, said: "Hung Phuc hat is now popular with customers. Only sold in the province but also not enough goods that sell. Where do you come from, you buy to that, but do not know how many people do not. There are no people to do so she also relinquished leaves for them. In the next three years, palm leaf knit hat will disappear. "

Heavenly shade, sunshine like fire, in the village used to live by knitting helmets, leaves or I saw a few old people wearing a hat to the road. Perhaps as Phuong feared, in just a few years, weaving knit hat will disappear from this village.

Source:http://dantri.com.vn/xa-hoi/mu-la-lam-nguoi-mua-nhung-khong-co-nguoi-lam-1396858756.htm