Portrait of the Vạn Phúc family workshop: two weavers at a wooden hand loom in window light, wine-red silk on the beam, family workshop of the family trade

Artisan · Lụa và thêu tay · Vạn Phúc village

Vạn
Phúc workshop

Hand-loom weavers · Family workshop · Weaving since the 1920s

“The loom is the loudest thing in the house and the gentlest.”

The workshop's mark, woven into the selvedge of every length.

Craft: Hand-loomed silkScarves, lengths, grounds for embroidery
Workshop: Vạn PhúcTwo wooden looms behind the main street
Learned from: Their grandmotherwho wove for the court
Signature: Damask figurescut in the village
On LangSoul: 2 worksTakes commissions

01 — The maker

Two wooden looms, behind the shops

Behind the powered looms of the main street, the family keeps two wooden ones running: a metre a day of the cloth that gave Hà Đông its name.

Hands on a wooden hand loom, shuttle passing through wine-red silk, in a Vạn Phúc weaving house, a wooden hand loom in window light, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre

Silk reeled from cocoons in hot water onto a wooden wheel, steam in the light, in a Vạn Phúc weaving house, a wooden hand loom in window light, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre

Behind the powered looms of the main street, the family keeps two wooden ones running: a metre a day of the cloth that gave Hà Đông its name.

The grandmother wove for the last court; the family has kept her looms and her pattern cards — chrysanthemum, cloud, the character for longevity — and still reels and twists thread by hand in the courtyard.

Their silk is the ground Quất Động’s embroiderers ask for, and the scarves we carry are dyed in small vats in the village, so no two are quite the same.

Punched pattern cards hanging from a wooden loom, in a Vạn Phúc weaving house, a wooden hand loom in window light, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre

A hand lifting dripping silk from a small plant-dye vat, in a Vạn Phúc weaving house, a wooden hand loom in window light, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre

02 — The works

Two works from the bench

All silk & hand embroidery works

Scarf, hand-loomed silk

Scarf · Edition of 15

$140

Silk length, chrysanthemum damask

Length · Edition of 20

$240

All silk & hand embroidery works

03 — Commission

The workshop weaves to order

A length in a colour, a set of scarves, a ground for an embroidery commission. Tell us what you have in mind and we will carry the conversation to the loom. Four to eight weeks from thread to crate.

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A letter from Vạn Phúc

“Your colour is in the vat. It came out a shade deeper than the sample; I think you will prefer it.”

— to a collector, April 2026.

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