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Woven Bamboo Ware BAO LA

- Location: Bao La village located on the northern bank of the Bo River, facing the East Sea, including Chua, Dinh, Hop, Dong, Cau and Cho hamlets, in Quang Phu commune, Quang Dien district. This is a famous village weaving bamboo products with the household appliances in the village, such as baskets, baskets, rollers, nong, nia ... Today, Bao La also began to produce famous goods. bamboo and rattan weaving with products of handicraft and bamboo rattan.

- Characteristics: No one knows the weaving business appeared in Bao La village since when, only know that talking about the basket weaving the Bao Bao is a famous village from the past to the whole of Hue. Bao La's bamboo knitting needles are both beautiful and durable, and are famous for their oral traditions. Binh Dinh very good people. Paid for several pairs. Take care of the bed spread Laos ".

Bamboo is a kind of tree attached to life in the countryside of Vietnam and has become a beautiful traditional Vietnamese culture. Bamboo grows around the house, around the garden, around the village streets and lanes and provides people with many simple but essential things for the life of the ancient Vietnamese. The type of bamboo that Bao La villagers use to make baskets, household items and agricultural production is a special type of bamboo: straight, long-stemmed called bamboo. Through the hand of a bottle of life in succession in this village has become the reputation of a kind of goods very close and necessary for human life such as: baskets, baskets, basket Slaughtering, weaving, etc. In spite of being an auxiliary occupation, weaving occupations attracted all working ages in the family and in the hamlet. Healthy people buy, cut bamboo and transport to the village. The elderly saw saw bamboo, splinters, lintels, weaving children, women carry products spread in the markets in rural villages.

Today, along with farm work, Bao La villagers continue to embark on their traditional bamboo knitting business, a profession whose popularity is associated with the name of Bao La knitting village. In addition to making traditional products, production organizations by family, such as hamlet Hamlet is specialized in knitting, screening; Easterners specializing in knit baskets; Chua hamlet specialized in knitting; Hamlet and Ham Ham are specialized in basket weaving all kinds; Hamlet of cranks, baskets. Bao La Village also participates in the production of handicrafts made by the rattan cooperative.

The market mechanism and modern life have made the traditional woven craft of Bao La village gradually, but also so that now in the village appeared more bamboo and rattan handicraft products appeared. The type of furniture, bamboo, rattan, handbags, flower basket types, decorative lamp hanging ... and a number of goods for tourism. Over time, the tradition of wicker making in the village has also changed, but this change is rooted in the love of the profession, attached to the profession as a driving force to connect the hands and the brain of the village in The process of finding a new direction for Bao La knitting products.

There is no countryside in Vietnam where there is no traditional village, it is a cultural beauty inherent in the village of Vietnam, is the essence of how many generations crystallized. The village of Bao La famous ancient days, now in the world to move up. Today, these hands are still human, but there are new minds, new ways of thinking to knit the village has more new products.