Hong Ly Silk Weaving Village

The Vu Thu district of Thai Binh province has long been famous for its many traditional craft villages, among which the Hong Ly silk-making village stands out. It's a place closely associated with the once-renowned silkworm farming, silk reeling, and silk weaving industry. Hong Ly is one of the rare villages that has preserved the essence of traditional silk reeling, and despite the vicissitudes of time, there are still people here who tirelessly preserve and develop this age-old craft.

During the golden age of silkworm breeding and weaving, Hong Ly and Hong Xuan communes had hundreds of hectares of mulberry trees, attracting thousands of households from the Hong Xuan and Tam Tinh cooperatives to participate in production. Associated with mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing, every 2-3 households would form a silk reeling group, spinning their own silk after cocoon production. Therefore, the craft village was always bustling, the mulberry fields were always lush and green, and the charcoal stoves for silk reeling were always burning brightly.

Silk reeling involves many steps and is very laborious. While silkworms are spinning their cocoons, breeders must carefully monitor the sunlight to ensure the cocoons dry and become fragrant, preventing them from disintegrating during reeling and resulting in lustrous golden silk threads. The resulting woven silk threads are all golden, strong, and durable.

Join author Le Ngoc Huy in exploring the Hong Ly Silk-Spinning Village through this photo series. Experience and admire the shimmering golden silk threads under the warm, honey-like sunlight, and witness firsthand the silk-spinning process – an unforgettable experience for anyone visiting Hong Ly village in Thai Binh province.

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