Embroidery village at 'heaven's gate' is busy with year-end orders

Muong Long 1 village (Muong Long commune, Ky Son district) has 135/149 Mong households participating in brocade weaving, accounting for more than 90% of households in the village. Photo: Thanh Phuc

The embroidery craft of the Mong ethnic group is a long-standing traditional craft, closely associated with the culture of the Mong people in this place known as the "heavenly gate" of Nghe An. Photo: Hoai Thu

Most women in the village are skilled in embroidery, from young girls in their twenties to old women in their 70s and 80s. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Previously, lace embroidery products were only used to make costumes for family members to wear on holidays, Tet, housewarming, weddings, funerals, or buffalo fighting festivals... Photo: Hoai Thu

With sophisticated patterns and eye-catching colors, over the past 10 years, Mong people's lace embroidery products have become commodities for sale on the market; even exported to Laos, Thailand... Photo: Thanh Phuc

Mong people's embroidery products used to make scarves, skirts, shirts, hats... are sold at quite high prices, some products cost up to millions of dong. Photo: Hoai Thu

Keeping up with customer tastes, people have gradually improved designs, producing modern, highly applicable products such as handbags, wallets, etc. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Income from brocade embroidery accounts for 24-31% of the total income of the whole village. The craft village operates year-round, especially at the end of the year, Mong women often gather in embroidery groups to deliver orders to customers on time. Photo: Hoai Thu

In 2023, the village's embroidery craft was recognized as a provincial-level craft village. This is one of the models of Project 6, the National Target Program on Socio -Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2030 period, with the goal of preserving and promoting the fine traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic minorities in association with tourism development. Photo: Thanh Phuc

In order for the embroidery craft to develop sustainably, create jobs, increase income for people, and contribute to poverty reduction, according to the orientation, in the near future, the locality will establish craft village cooperatives, build product brands, organize product consumption links, and bring traditional brocade products into tourism services. Photo: Hoai Thu

The embroidery craft of the Mong people in Ky Son is still preserved and promoted in some other communities. In the photo: Women in Pha Xac village (Huoi Tu commune) pass on the embroidery craft to the next generation. Photo: Thanh Phuc

In 2023, Craft Link implemented the “Local Traditional Craft Development Project”. Accordingly, the project uses typical Mong motifs to design new products that meet market needs, increasing income for the community. At the same time, the Pha Xac embroidery cooperative participated in demonstrating the embroidery skills of the White Mong people in Hanoi . Photo: Hoai Thu

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