Land of traditional craft villages

Update: 05-04-2019 | 15:10:16

In addition to the strength of tourism development from monuments, landscapes and entertainment spots, Binh Duong is also famous for long-standing traditional villages such as Tuong Binh Hiep Lacquer Village, Craft village of Lai Thieu pottery, sculpture village - wood carving, bamboo and rattan trade village.

Referring to the traditional trade village in Binh Duong, many people will immediately remember to Tuong Binh Hiep Lacquer Craft Village (Tuong Binh Hiep Ward, Thu Dau Mot City). The facilities at Tuong Binh Hiep Lacquer Village produce a variety of lacquer products, from artistic paintings to applied and decorative lacquer such as lamps, cups, jars, bottles, bracelets, boxes. In addition to traditional materials, such as snail, nacre etc., the workers here are creative and find new materials such as bamboo, coconut shells, precious stones, gold and silver.

Lacquerists are completing lacquer products at a production facility in Tuong Binh Hiep Lacquer Village. Photo: Khanh Dang

Binh Duong is also considered the cradle of Southern household carpentry. Over hundreds of years, now in Phu Tho Ward (Thu Dau Mot City), An Thanh Ward (Thuan An Town) still exists a sculpture village - wood carving and Phu Van village. Highlights of Binh Duong household furniture are sleek, good materials, depicting patterns, sophisticated details thanks to talented hands, creativity of artisans through touch techniques, nacre mosaic on products such as chairs, altars, diaphragm, couplets. Particularly, clogs are concentrated mainly in Phu Van area (Phu Tho ward, Thu Dau Mot city) and Binh Nham ward (Thuan An town) with products mainly of rustic clogs, paint clogs, and clogs. engraved pattern.

Besides lacquer, wood sculpture, Binh Duong is also the ceramic center of the Southern region. Binh Duong pottery is associated with 3 large pottery centers, Tan Phuoc Khanh pottery village (Tan Uyen town), Lai Thieu (Thuan An town) and Chanh Nghia (Thu Dau Mot city). Besides traditional pottery, Binh Duong is also famous at home and abroad Minh Long I brand ceramic products, Cuong Phat with diversified products, rich designs and high quality.

On the occasion of visiting Binh Duong, tourists should also visit the bamboo and rattan trade village. Bamboo and rattan craft is mainly concentrated in Bac Tan Uyen district and Tan Uyen town, with products used in daily life such as fans, baskets, and mums made from natural materials like rattan, bamboo, water hyacinth , duck ... Ba Nhat cooperative (Uyen Hung ward, Tan Uyen town) is a production base of quality products and is exported to Asian, European and American countries.

In addition, Binh Duong is also famous for other craft villages such as making pigs (Lai Thieu ward, Thuan An town), making rice paper (Phu An commune, Ben Cat town).

Reported by Khanh Dang – Translated by Vi Bao

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