Throughoutcenturies, traditional crafts and craft villages have been existed anddeveloped as an integral part of Thai Binh’s history, for instance:weave fabric in Phuong La, silver carve in Dong Xam, copper casting inAn Long, lace embroider in Minh Lang, “cáy” cake making in Nguyen Xa.Of which, Dong Xam is a village whose population is skilled in metalcarving and attracts a large number of visitors from other provinces.

DongXam SilverVillage

Making a traditional product

Asof March 2003, the village has been acknowledged as qualified craftvillage and has a wide range of consumer’s favorite handicrafts. DongXam Silver Village is known not only in the Vietnam, but also overseas.The handicrafts are produced for both domestic use and export toforeign markets, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Laos, Thailand,Netherlands, and Spain.

Silverhas been used for many centuries, going back to ancient times.Periodically, it enjoys great popularity as it does currently. Silveris the most common of the precious metals. It is working qualities arevery similar to gold. In fact, silver shines above all other metals inthis respect. Silver carving products of Dong Xam village is sodifferent from the ones of other places. Dong Xam’s products arecharacterized by strange styles of cube and appearance, bysophisticated and well-proportioned decorations, bydelicate and perfect skill. It can be said that the skill andcarefulness of Dong Xam artists have been able to satisfy all thedemands for using silver carving products of customers who aredifficult and knowledgeable about silver carving art.Dong Xam artists always think high of “faithfulness” and “talent”.Therefore, their products, which are always genuine and carefully-made, keep maintaining customers’ confidence.

Accordingto the local people, 300 hundred years ago, there was an artist namedNguyen Kim Lau, who travelled downstream on the Tra Ly River by boat toDong Xam to make a living. He transferred his silver carving skills tothe local people. Over time, silver carving has been

Beautiful silver carving products

Dong XamTemple Festival

DongXam Temple Festival annually takes place from the 1st to the 3rd day ofthe fourth lunar month and attracts many tourist from everywhere. Themost exciting program is the boat racing contest on river with theparticipation of youth men in the hamlet and neighboring communes.Besides, there remains interesting traditional games and folk cultureslike ca tru and cheo singing.

In the days of Dong Xam Temple Festival, a great deal of beautiful silver carving products are displayed and sold as souvenir for tourists.

DongXam Silver Village is expected to make a positive contribution into theimplementation of provincial socio-economic targets and help Thai BinhProvince to make rapid advances on the course of industrialization and modernization.