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Phu Vinh's introduction: Before 1960 - the
age of cooperative associations, when Phu Vinh households were active in creating
different patterns and making rattan and bamboo products to sell at streets in
Hanoi for both the local people and the foreign tourists. After the
establishment of handicraft cooperative associations, all the rattan and bamboo
products produced in Phu Vinh were bought by the State. The production
was developed dramatically. After 1986, when Phu Vinh handicraft cooperative
associations were dissolved, production was limited within the household and
cooperative group scale. People had to run their business themselves and
received no more subsidy and protection from the government. In order to survive
in the market, producers had to find partners and to look for markets for their
output. Severe market competition forced the producers to produce high quality
but low price products. So far the rattan and bamboo handicraft industry has
developed not only in the number and quality of products but also in the number
of households that participate in the production. Phu Vinh has become the most
attractive place in Phu Nghia commune for visitors of handicraft trade village
tours. Tourists coming to Phu Vinh were attracted by the history of over three
centuries of traditional rattan handicraft and bamboo weaving. Nowadays, thanks
to modern technologies for raw material processing, skills and techniques of the
traditional handicraft are more enhanced and improved. Phu Vinh village is
administratively divided into four hamlets: Dam Bung, Go Dau, Ha and Thuong. As
the traditional handicraft has employed 99% of 605 households in the village,
tourists coming to the village show great interests in the introduction on the
handicraft industry from local residents who are all the time busy with weaving
products. However, there are some problems which need to be considered. In many
families, artisans do not teach the non-family members or people from other
villages. Outsiders could learn some techniques but only basics skills of the
handicraft weaving. Thus the workers in the villages dare not to take high
volumes of orders from buyers, especially during the harvest season because of a
lack of the skilled workers.
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