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 | About Vietnam >> Vietnam's Fine Arts & Crafts :>> Fine Arts & Crafts - Embroidery Embroidery has a long history in Vietnam and was developed by different ethnic groups nationwide. It has become a unique form of Vietnamese culture after many centuries of development. The art of embroidering on silk was introduced into Viet communities of the north during the 17th century one by Le Cong Thanh, who learned the ancient skills during a diplomatic trip to China and then brought them back to his native village of Quat Dong in Ha Tay Province. Thereafter, it spread to other villages in Ha Tay and neighbouring Bac Ninh and Hung Yen provinces, eventually reaching the Old Quarter of Hanoi, where various guilds were set up. In its original form silk embroidery utilised just five colours of thread - yellow, red, green, violet and blue - and was used mainly to adorn temples and pagodas. By the 19th century silk embroidery had become very popular at the royal court in Hue; several exquisite examples of embroidery commissioned by the Nguyen dynasty kings have survived and are preserved in the Vietnam History Museum and Vietnam Fine Art Museum in Hanoi and in the Hue Royal Fine Art Museum.
With the Great Depression the international market for lace embroidery slumped and the subsequent introduction of machine-made lace dealt a severe blow to Vietnam’s lace makers, although some villages in Ha Tay and Ninh Binh Provinces continued to export small quantities of lace to Europe into the 1960s and 1970s. Since the advent of Doi Moi (Renovation) the introduction of new technologies have brought about significant changes and a wide range of mass-produced items are now produced to meet the demands of tourism as well as domestic and international markets.
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