The traditional Minh Lang embroidery village in Minh Lang commune, Vu Thu district, Thai Binh province has existed for many centuries. After many ups and downs, today in Minh Lang, there are still workers who diligently keep their profession.
embroidery is a handicraft that requires the craftsman to have skillful, talented hands, sharp eyes combined with a delicate mind and meticulous, meticulous virtue. With just a few skillful hands, Minh Lang craftsmen have turned simple materials into unique and beautiful products.
Having been with the needle, the thread has been over 50 years, Ms. Tran Thi Kho (68 years old), a long -term "Kim hand" in Minh Lang commune shared: "According to the instrument, embroidery in Minh Lang we have from ancient times, handed down from generation to generation. In the past years, the profession of prosperity, every family has a embroidery and relying on the family economy.
The process of making a Minh Lang embroidery product is quite elaborate. First, make samples on paper, draw draw draw drawings on the mold to print on fabric, embroider, wash, check the product, frame (or package). In addition to traditional embroidery techniques, the current embroidery profession also develops difficult and creative embroidery techniques.
Having been taught embroidery by her mother since she was a child, Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhuan (50 years old, in Minh Lang commune) loves her job and always wants to preserve and develop the embroidery profession every day. Realizing that the embroidery profession was gradually losing its inherent values, Ms. Nhuan and her husband opened an embroidery workshop in the locality to create jobs for elderly workers and preserve the profession.
"To learn embroidery is not difficult, if you study hard for about 3 - 4 months, you can already embroider basically. As for sophisticated embroidered lines, they need talented and experienced hands. The embroidery profession requires sitting all day on the embroidery frame, so now the young generation is not persistent and do not want to follow the profession. Many young people with experience in embroidery do not want to follow the profession, I feel very regretful and worried about whether there will be a successor to the traditional profession of their ancestors," Ms. Nhuan confided.
Today, in Minh Lang, there are still companies, establishments and embroidery groups formed, creating jobs for those working in the profession and preserving the traditional embroidery profession of their ancestors.
