A lacquer craft village more than 300 years old on the edge of old Saigon, where every piece goes through some 25 stages, from priming and lacquering to eggshell inlay.
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Tuong Binh Hiep (now Chanh Hiep ward, Thu Dau Mot, Ho Chi Minh City) is where lacquerware appeared in the 18th century, and the craft was added by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to the national list of intangible cultural heritage on 6 April 2016. From more than 700 households practising it at its height in the 1980s and 1990s, the village now has a few dozen workshops keeping up the techniques of priming, lacquering, polishing and inlaying eggshell through many layers to make ritual objects, trays and boxes, paintings and furniture.
English text: machine translation from the Localis platform — proper names kept in Vietnamese.Good to know
Services
- Visits to lacquer workshops (contact in advance)
- Trying simple stages: painting motifs, laying eggshell, polishing
- Buying lacquerware at the workshop
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