Mây tre cói đan · Rattan, bamboo & sedge · Unique
Storage chest, woven bamboo
Tre — bamboo, split and woven here over a bamboo frame for a chest that weighs a fraction of a wooden one.
Nguyễn Thị Lan
A chest in the twill weave over a bamboo frame, with a lid that lifts on rattan hinges and a rim finished in black lacquer in Hạ Thái — the only piece in the collection made in two villages.
Light enough to carry with one hand, strong enough to sit on. For linen, for blankets, for the things a room needs to hide.
- Materials
- Split bamboo, rattan binding, bamboo frame, lacquered rim from Hạ Thái
- Technique
- Twill weave over a frame; lid on rattan hinges
- Dimensions
- 60 × 38 × 36 cm · 23.6 × 15 × 14.2 in · 3.2 kg
- Edition
- Unique work · Signed and sealed on the reverse
- Made
- Phú Vinh, Chương Mỹ · 2026
The making
Six weeks, in two villages
The weaving is Phú Vinh's; the rim travelled south to be lacquered and came back.
I
The frame
Bamboo cut, dried and lashed into a box.
II
The weave
Split bamboo in a twill over the frame, two over two under.
III
The rim
Bamboo rim sent to Hạ Thái for six coats of black lacquer.
IV
The hinges
Rattan loops bound through the lid and body; the chest left a week to settle.
From the same village
