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Brocatelle of ethnic minority groups in Sapa

These delicate brocatelle products are made by H’mong, Dao, Xa Pho, Pa Di women since they possess good command of color combination. You will be attracted by the magical beauty of their handmade products since they contain full colors of the nature from pine trees, hills and mountains, corn seeds, and rice seeds, etc. A complete brocatelle looks like a vivid picture reflecting the daily life of native ethnic people. Most tourists are surprised by the brocatelle products of these talented women because each vignette on the products requires precise and sensitive skills. The completed product can be compared as an artistic work of the producers.

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The art of brocatelle is exchanged from female generation to female generation, the elderly teach the younger. It is expected that the traditional handicraft of ethnic groups in Sapa will be maintained and developed in the future.

Nowadays, Sapa brocatelle is not as rudimentary as it was in the past; instead, it has been improved and formalized in order to be applied for other products like pictures, pillows, scarves, shoes, handbags, bags, mobile phone bags of all colors to satisfy the multiple needs of visitors. As a traveler, you can choose yourself products with various styles and patterns. They can be used as a small gift for your friends and relatives after such an interesting journey.

These brocatelle products can be found in various places in Sapa from small streets, markets with many small shops. Among Sapa’s brocatelle products, Ta Phin Village’s is the most well-known one. Ta Phin’s brocatelle has been exported to many countries like America, Denmark, France, etc. These products have become a unique cultural symbol of Sapa considered as a pretty gift for travelers all over the world.

 

Visiting Sapa or communes around, you will see nice but thoughtful life pictures where women in brocatelle costumes work on textile frames and take care of their children around at the same time. Or you can see on roads/paths women with their kids on their back and the fibers on their hands, they are making the fibers while going to their destination. Some H’Mong women shared that the H’Mong women worked since they wake up in the early morning at 4.00a.m till going to bed in the late evening at 10.00p.m; whenever they stop working in the field, they do the housework or make fibers and work on textile frame. They make the costumes for themselves, their husbands and their kids. In their knowledge, males can not do this kind of work. Males never know how to do this work, the work is of females only.

 

 

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