Vong Nguyet Silk

21/09/2021 08:47

Vong Nguyet (Tam Giang, Yen Phong, Bac Ninh) is a small village on the left of the Cau River where generates the off vong Throughout the thousand years of the famous silk history, Vong Nguyet has come to the memory and nostalgia of several people who love silk, brocade. Vong Nguyet has famous throughout the region by planting mulberry and silkworm farming. The mulberry planting and silkworm farming of Vong Nguyet has been around 1000 years.

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Vong Nguyet is blessed with a beautiful location, with alluvial fields offering good mulberry harvests within four seasons. Vong Nguyet people have a predestined relationship with mulberry planting and silkworm farming, when raising silkworms, they will havests several cocoons and each coco on will produce several silks. With diligence, skillfulness and love for the profession, Vong Nguyet people have created blnd, smooth, durable, and firm silk threads, in order to textile the luxurious and royal clothing, the national dress, the brocade and the silk preferred by the royal people.

In the 80s of the last century, artists who have lived most of their lives are still thinking ancient craft, remembering the sound of spinning, remembering the croaking sounds, remembering cocoons and silkworms, remembering alluvial grounds and mulberry fields and they together rejuvenated the craft of mulberry growing and silkworm farming of the village. With diligence and skillfulness, artists of Vong Nguyet have made silky, soft silk threads with the same identity as silk of hundreds of years ago, which resulting the traders started to purchase silk. With the determination to keep this essence, the young people have found out how to sell products widely to the market, from which a lot of households have learned to follow. So, the village has launched a movement to grow mulberry farm silkworm to produce cocoons.

If the descendants of Vong Nguyet have a cocoon group, nowadays there is a mulberry group in Vong Nguyet. Each year, the Vong Nguyet people produce 60-70 tons of silk, nearly 10% of silk production in the country. Vong Nguyet offers a wide range of silk, from high-grade silk to tiny silk, improved silk, hand-made silk, original silk, spunned silk,…

It can be said that Vong Nguyet is one of the few of Vietnamese rural villages that are good at education. Despite spending thousands of years with the looms in order to provide substance, the peasants still do not forget to remind their children that they must love learning like love craft. They are inspiring and fond of learning to ascendants.

By T.L