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Vietnamese craft villages · Since the 14th century

Objects with a soul,
made by hands that remember.

LangSoul brings the works of Vietnam's craft villages — rattan, ceramic, bronze, lacquer, wood, silk — to homes that value the slowness of the hand. Every piece is signed by its maker and traced to the village where the craft was born.

Hồn làng trong từng tác phẩm — the village soul, in every work.

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A craft-village courtyard in the Red River Delta at morning, work drying on bamboo racks, brick floor, soft mist, a figure bent over a bench in the background

Hà Nội · Việt Nam

LangSoul brings the works of Vietnam's craft villages — rattan, ceramic, bronze, lacquer, wood, silk — to homes that value the slowness of the hand. Every piece is signed by its maker and traced to the village where the craft was born.

Hồn làng trong từng tác phẩm — the village soul, in every work.

Explore the crafts Read the manifesto
Mây tre cói đan · Rattan & bambooGốm sứ mỹ nghệ · CeramicsĐồ đồng trang trí · BronzeKim hoàn thủ công · JewellerySơn mài · LacquerĐồ gỗ mỹ nghệ · WoodLụa và thêu tay · Silk & embroidery

A village is not a place. It is a lineage of hands — and each work carries that lineage into your home.

The craft villages of the Red River Delta have passed a single skill from grandmother to grandchild for centuries. We do not sell souvenirs of that history. We carry the history itself: works chosen one at a time, named, signed, and sent slowly.

The LangSoul manifesto

01 — What we carry

The seven crafts

Each work on LangSoul comes from a village where one craft has been practised for generations. We name the village, the artisan and the technique on every piece — because a work without its maker is only an object.

Hands weaving split rattan cane in a tight pattern in a Phú Vinh courtyard, pale cane drying behind, dappled sun, rattan, bamboo & sedge

I

Rattan, bamboo & sedge

Mây tre cói đan

Phú Vinh village · c. 400 years
A potter lifting a celadon bowl from a freshly opened kiln load in Bát Tràng, brick kiln and sage-green ware behind, fine ceramics

II

Fine ceramics

Gốm sứ mỹ nghệ

Bát Tràng village · c. 14th century
Molten bronze poured into a sand mould in the Đại Bái foundry before dawn, orange glow on the casters' hands, decorative bronze

III

Decorative bronze

Đồ đồng trang trí

Đại Bái village · c. 11th century
A silversmith building a filigree lotus from twisted silver wire with tweezers at a worn bench in Định Công, hand-wrought jewellery

IV

Hand-wrought jewellery

Kim hoàn thủ công

Định Công village · c. 6th century
A palm polishing a black lacquer panel with charcoal in Hạ Thái, an eggshell moon and gold rising through the surface, lacquer

V

Lacquer

Sơn mài

Hạ Thái village · c. 17th century
A carver cutting a lotus relief into dark rosewood with a gouge in Đồng Kỵ, shavings and planks around, fine woodwork

VI

Fine woodwork

Đồ gỗ mỹ nghệ

Đồng Kỵ village · c. 18th century
Silk thread being split and stitched on an embroidery frame set in a window in Quất Động, morning light, silk & hand embroidery

VII

Silk & hand embroidery

Lụa và thêu tay

Vạn Phúc & Quất Động · c. 11th century

“Seven crafts. One river delta. Hundreds of years of practice, still unbroken.”

The atlas of villages

02 — Chosen this season

Selected works

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Moon over Hạ Thái: A natural-lacquer panel, a pale crushed-eggshell moon over water of buried gold leaf, twelve wet-sanded layers on a jackfruit-wood board, standing upright against the cabinet, in the Hạ Thái lacquer workshop, dark wooden drying cabinets behind, palette of brown-black, cinnabar and dull gold, by Nguyễn Văn Thái

Sơn mài · Lacquer

Moon over Hạ Thái

By Nguyễn Văn Thái · Hạ Thái village

Twelve layers of natural lacquer, each sanded by hand under running water before the next is laid. Crushed eggshell forms the moon; gold leaf, the water beneath it. Three months from raw board to final polish.

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Lidded vessel, rain pattern: A tall lidded rattan vessel in the diagonal "rain" weave, hand-split cane with a bamboo rim, natural unbleached finish, its lid resting beside it, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun, by Trần Thị Mai

Lidded vessel, rain pattern

Trần Thị Mai · Phú Vinh

$340
Celadon tea bowl, crackle glaze: A celadon tea bowl with a fine crackle glaze from rice-straw ash, white river clay, sitting alone on a worn wooden board, in a Bát Tràng pottery workshop, brick kiln door and shelves of bisque ware behind, sage greens and warm greys, by Phạm Văn Đức

Celadon tea bowl, crackle glaze

Phạm Văn Đức · Bát Tràng

$180
Lotus pond, hand-embroidered silk: A hand-embroidered silk panel of a lotus pond, shaded silk thread on hand-loomed Vạn Phúc silk, still stretched on its wooden frame, in a Quất Động embroidery room, a wooden frame set in the window, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre, soft morning light, by Lê Thị Hoa

Lotus pond, hand-embroidered silk

Lê Thị Hoa · Quất Động

$860

Unique work

Lidded vessel, rain pattern: A tall lidded rattan vessel in the diagonal "rain" weave, hand-split cane with a bamboo rim, natural unbleached finish, its lid resting beside it, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun, by Trần Thị Mai

Lidded vessel, rain pattern

Phú Vinh · Trần Thị Mai

$340
Celadon tea bowl, crackle glaze: A celadon tea bowl with a fine crackle glaze from rice-straw ash, white river clay, sitting alone on a worn wooden board, in a Bát Tràng pottery workshop, brick kiln door and shelves of bisque ware behind, sage greens and warm greys, by Phạm Văn Đức

Celadon tea bowl, crackle glaze

Bát Tràng · Phạm Văn Đức

$180
Lotus pond, hand-embroidered silk: A hand-embroidered silk panel of a lotus pond, shaded silk thread on hand-loomed Vạn Phúc silk, still stretched on its wooden frame, in a Quất Động embroidery room, a wooden frame set in the window, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre, soft morning light, by Lê Thị Hoa

Lotus pond, hand-embroidered silk

Quất Động · Lê Thị Hoa

$860
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03 — The hands behind the work

“I count a work in seasons, not days. A panel started in the rains will never polish like one started in the dry.”

Nguyễn Văn Thái

Lacquer master · Hạ Thái village · At the bench since 1989

Meet the artisans
Portrait of Nguyễn Văn Thái, lacquer master in his sixties, seated at the polishing bench in Hạ Thái, hands resting on a black lacquer board, looking slightly past the camera, third generation of the family trade

04 — Within a morning of Hà Nội

Where the work is made

All within a morning's drive of Hà Nội. We visit each one, and we photograph every work in the workshop it came from — never in a studio.

Browse the full atlas of craft villages
Phú VinhRattan & bamboo weavingChương Mỹ, Hà Nội30 km from the cityBát TràngCeramics & porcelainGia Lâm, Hà Nội15 km from the cityĐại BáiBronze casting & chasingGia Bình, Bắc Ninh35 km from the cityĐịnh CôngSilver & gold filigreeHoàng Mai, Hà Nội8 km from the cityHạ TháiNatural lacquerThường Tín, Hà Nội20 km from the cityĐồng KỵCarved hardwoodTừ Sơn, Bắc Ninh20 km from the cityVạn PhúcHand-loomed silkHà Đông, Hà Nội12 km from the cityQuất ĐộngHand embroideryThường Tín, Hà Nội25 km from the city

05 — Stories from the delta

Letters from the village

All letters
A craft-village lane at dawn, bamboo drying racks along the wall, a kiln chimney smoking, Red River Delta mist

Villages · October 2026

The village year: what the courtyards do in each season

Kilns fire before Tết, rattan dries in the summer sun, silk is loomed when the rains stop. A calendar of eight villages.

The sixth coat of a lacquer panel wet-sanded under a thin stream of water in Hạ Thái, grey slurry on black

Process · October 2026

Twelve layers, three months: how a lacquer panel is born

One board in Hạ Thái from raw jackfruit wood to its last polish under running water.

Split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks in a Phú Vinh courtyard in November sun, whitewashed walls

Villages · September 2026

The courtyards of Phú Vinh, where rattan dries in the sun

A village where every household weaves, and the pattern of the roofs repeats in the baskets below them.

All letters

A letter with each new moon.

One story from the villages, one new work, once a month. Nothing else, and never a sale.