Silk length, chrysanthemum damask: A length of hand-loomed mulberry silk with a chrysanthemum damask figure, plant-dyed wine red, running off the wooden loom, in a Vạn Phúc weaving house, a wooden hand loom in window light, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre, by Vạn Phúc workshop — Photo · On the loom

Silk length, chrysanthemum damask, macro of the woven chrysanthemum figure, in a Vạn Phúc weaving house, a wooden hand loom in window light, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre — 02 / 04 · The chrysanthemum figure

Silk length, chrysanthemum damask, close-up of the hand-finished selvedge, in a Vạn Phúc weaving house, a wooden hand loom in window light, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre — 03 / 04 · The selvedge

Silk length, chrysanthemum damask, a hand lifting dripping silk from a small plant-dye vat, wine-red water, in a Vạn Phúc weaving house, a wooden hand loom in window light, mulberry silk, deep wine red and ochre — 04 / 04 · The vat

Photographed at the loom. Three metres, for a dress, a curtain, a bolster; dyed in a small vat, so each length is a shade of its own.

Lụa và thêu tay · Silk & hand embroidery · Edition of 20

Silk length, chrysanthemum damask

Vân — the damask figure woven into the silk; here the chrysanthemum the grandmother cut into the pattern cards.

$240

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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

Vạn Phúc workshop

Hand-loom weavers · Vạn Phúc village · Family workshop

Three metres of the cloth that gave Hà Đông its name, loomed by hand on the family’s wooden loom with the chrysanthemum figure from their grandmother’s pattern cards. Reeled and twisted in the courtyard; dyed in a small vat.

Enough for a dress, a long curtain, or the ground for an embroidery commission in Quất Động.

Materials: Mulberry silk, hand-reeled, plant-dyed
Technique: Hand-loomed damask on a wooden loom
Dimensions: 300 × 90 cm · 118 × 35.4 in · 150 g
Edition: Edition of 20 · Signed and sealed
Made: Vạn Phúc, Hà Đông · 2026
Delivery: Crated by hand, insured door to door · Ready in 5 days · 30-day return