Silk weaving has been a traditional handicraft in Vietnam for thousands of years. Legend has it that the craft was introduced to Co Do village in Hanoi’s outlying district of Ba Vi by the sixth Hung ...

Phan Thi Thuan checks a lotus stem that will be processed into a rare type of silk at a pond in Hanoi AFP / Nhac NGUYEN Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a ...

VietNamNet Bridge - Located about 10 km from Hoan Kiem Lake, Van Phuc silk village still retains the original characteristics of an ancient village of Vietnam, with age old banyan trees, wells and ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a lotus paddy to gather the stems needed to make a rare and highly sought-after thread. Her great-aunt ...

Phan Thi Thuan is the first in Vietnam to make 'lotus silk,' an exclusive fabric highly sought by fashion designers Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a lotus ...

Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a lotus paddy to gather the stems needed to make a rare and highly sought-after thread. Her great-aunt made and sold ...

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Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a lotus paddy to gather the stems needed to make a rare and highly sought-after thread. Her great-aunt made and sold ...