Traditional crafts– tag –

At the counter near the entrance of a shop called "Hồng Ngọc Fine Art" at 110B Ngoc Ha Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, hangs a lacquer work spanning more than 15 meters in total length, made up of 21 joined panels. It depicts the old quarter as it appeared around 1850 — the so-called "Hanoi 36 Streets." The artist is Nguyen The...

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 25. In Vietnam it is the season when lion dance (mua lan) heads appear in the streets, but those red-and-gold heads are not mass-produced items stamped out in a factory. According to a workshop report published by local media outlet Saigoneer on September 19, the workshop "Thuan Anh Hang" in Binh Hung Hoa Ward crafts them from bamboo and rattan...

The craft exhibition NGHE runs through September 26 at 45 Trang Tien Street in Hanoi, placing craft-village artisans' work alongside pieces by university students and companies in the same space. Here's a look at the venue and how travelers can see the current state of traditional crafts around the city.

Walking through Hoi An's old town, you occasionally come across buildings with heavy tiled-roof gateways that are neither temples nor private homes. In Vietnamese they are called "đình" — village communal halls. One of them, a dinh over 200 years old standing at 27 Le Loi Street, will host a bamboo craft...from August 15 to 16, 2026.

For eight midsummer days, young voices returned to a small village on the outskirts of Hanoi. Beside craftspeople applying lacquer, working the wheel, and operating water puppets, university students held up their phones to shoot video. The design camp "Summer Camp Re:Craft 2026," held in July 2026, brought together five traditional crafts whose pool of successors is dwindling...

Carving woodblocks and layering natural pigments one color at a time—if that description brings ukiyo-e to mind, there is a village about 30 km from Vietnam's capital Hanoi that deserves your attention. On July 4, 2026, the major Vietnamese news site VietnamNet visited the Dong Ho woodblock print village in Bac Ninh Province...

Six traditional three-plank sailboats, restored by a master craftsman from old drawings, launched in World Heritage Ha Long Bay. We introduce an about-one-hour cruise enjoying a QR multilingual guide, fishing-village cuisine, and antiphonal song, as an experience on a different axis from tourist boats.

Huynh Van Ba, the artisan over 90 who first created Hoi An's folding lantern. Prompted by a remark from an Australian tourist, the technique he developed by applying the mechanism of umbrellas and fans is still passed down to his sons and apprentices.