Vietnamese Silk lanterns - Oriental silk lanterns

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The home of these Vietnamese silk lanterns is Hoi An, south of Vietnam (just 28 km to the Southeast of Danang City.) Hoi An is the world cultural heritage, was one of the major trading centers, a prosperous commercial port town of Southeast Asia in the 16-17th century. Merchant boats from Arabian countries and China came to Hoi An to trade. Hoi An has long been a cultural crossroads where Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Indian traders set up their emporiums or established their own quarters for permanent habitation. Today, this enchanting town is a living museum dedicated to the past. Lanterns trade has a rich, long history in Vietnam. In ancient times, Vietnamese people made lamps out of shallow bowls filled with oil. Later, foreign traders introduced lanterns, ranging from round and hexagonal designs from China to diamond and star shaped ones from Japan. Hoi An lantern is various size and shape, from normal lantern to dragon lantern or fish lantern with full of color. Hoi An people are very proud of their lanterns. It is very simple and easy to do only with hard work. They have to use the old bamboo soaking ten-day in salt water against wormhole and moth, then drying it and sharpening it as the size of lantern. Cloth must be silken or nylon and must be tough enough for stretching. The lantern making process requires the good skills and a lot of patience. The material are natural silk (silk worm mad in Vietnam), bamboo frames and wool tassels. The colors, the shapes and the patterns on silk are meaningful. These beautiful lanterns are the combination between the beauty of vietnamese silk and the high skills of vietnamese people. Hoi An's old-fashioned charm is always visible, on the 15th of every lunar month modernity takes another step back. On these evenings the town turns off its street lamps and fluorescent lights, leaving the Old Quarter bathed in the warm glow of color silk, glass and paper lanterns. Lanterns are hanging on the altar of each Hoi An family. They have the beautiful Chinese word that is the name of each clan. Lanterns are light up in every corner of the town when there are the traditional opera performances, poem readings and chess competitions during monthly full moon Festivals. These lanterns can bring the atmosphere of the peaceful ancient town into your home.
Vietnamese Traditional Silk Lanterns - Silk lanterns
These lanterns are hand made in Hoi An, central of Vietnam. The material is 100% natural vietnamese silk (natural silk made from silk worms which is very famous in Asia) The silk has beautiful colors and meaningful patterns. The frames are made by bamboo. Everything is hand made using bamboo, silk, and wood. Please click on the picture to see the beauty of vietnamese silk. We have a new collection of silk lanterns, please go to: www.justlanterns.com for more lanterns with different colors and shapes.
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	Vietnamese Lacquer Paintings - Lacquer art is a famous ancient trade of Vietnam. Lacquer paintings with mother of pearl and sea shells inlay are vietnamese specialties.
	Vietnamese Embroidery Paintings - These Vietnamese embroidery paintings are bought directly from the artists in the rural villages of northern Vietnam where they are made. Each piece takes a great deal of time to complete. Our large Vietnamese embroidery paintings for example may take over one month for a single artist to finish. We hand pick only the most beautiful silk embroidery artwork having the highest thread count, the most exquisite colors and meeting strict quality standards. Many of our customers were first looking for Oriental cross stitch, Chinese embroidery or Japanese needlework when they discovered our site.
	Embroidery Paintings with Frames - Paintings with authentic solid wood frames made in USA Each painting is done profesionally with the backing, wooden frame (or painted wood) and glass. These framese are made by an local artist. Please visit his website to see his wood products: www.Gregswoodshed.com
	Vietnamese Traditional Silk Lanterns - Our beautiful Vietnamese silk lanterns are a wonderful way to decorate a home. They are made from finely woven silk and bamboo, and ad the perfect Asian accent to any room. These lanterns are hand made in Hoi An Vietnam by small family owned businesses. The material is natural vietnamese silk (natural silk made from silk worms which is very famous in Asia) The silk has beautiful colors and meaningful patterns. The frames are made by bamboo. Everything is hand made using bamboo, silk, and wood. Although made in Vietnam many people looking for Chinese lanterns are pleased by the quality of these Asian lamps from Vietnam. Our lanterns feature a convenient mounting bracket on the top for easy hanging. We also carry optional 15' lantern lighting kits.
	Vietnamese Silk Paintings - Silk painting art is famous in Asia. In Vietnam, the painting is made on the silk canvas. The delicate white color found in the sky, water or human portraits, is the color of silk. Colors and silk background give the paintings such an harmony with the nature.
	Oil Paintings - Welcome to our new gallery: Vietnamese oil paintings. They are the paintings of a group of vietnamese young artists. This collection has a variety of styles from peaceful vietnamese rural scenes to modern styles. They are NOT the mass produce prints on canvas and air brushed that we can easily find in the market. Each painting has a vivid life and unique. They are truly beautiful.
	Water Puppets - They are made out of wood and lacquer in Vietnam. Each big puppet is a beautiful wood sculpture and painting work. They all have the signature of the artist. See more and learn about the Vietnamese Water Puppets Art.
	Vietnamese Ceramic Tile Paintings - They are handpainted on ceramic material. After painting, the pictures were put into the kiln and were burned with high temperature. This process makes the color last forever. All ceramic paintings come with a beautiful handmade wooden frame which easily mounts on the wall.
	Stone and Wooden Boxes - These boxes are hand made in Vietnam. Please click on the pictures to see the handcarving details. The wooden boxes have bones (water buffalo) inlaid.
	Vietnamese Decoration Masks - They are made by vietnamese traditional material: bamboo, coconut, and lacquer. They are different figures and have different emotions. The masks are painted by the make-up styles of vietnamese traditional theatre. Each one expresses an emotion of one character. Each one is unique and we only have one of each item. Great for collectors!!!
	Flower Embroidery Paintings - These beautiful flower paintings are hand embroidered on the black fabric. Many fine tiny threads to form the flowers with the natural beauty and stunning colors.
	Hand made Chopsticks Boxes - The chopsticks boxes are hand made in Vietnam out of ebony and hard wood. The chopsticks are included.
	Lacquer Paintings on Plates - Plate Paintings: Exquisite paintings on Plates. Phenomenal scenes hand painted on lacquer plates!!!
	Vietnamese Paintings - These paintings are created by the young artists in the north of Vietnam with the variety of material: water color on Dzo papers, white color on black sand papers or just pencil or black crayon. They are singed and each is mounted on a thin white matte. The dimensions listed are for the painting itself.
	Ao Dai/ Children Vietnamese Traditional Dress - Ao Dai: Vietnamese traditional dress. Silk dress and pants made for children. We have different sizes and colors. They are perfect for your children.
	Vietnamese Children's Place - Hand Made Vietnamese Folk Toys for children: Paper Masks, Kites, Animal Character hats, Children Toys for Mid Autumn Festival, Children instruments, Dragon Flies.
	Children Bilingual Books/Pictures Books - Vietnamese folk tales pictures books in two languages: Vietnamese and English. These bilingual books have good content, authentic illustration, and reliable translation. They are great cultural source for children, parents and teachers!
	Vietnamese Music CDs - Original Vietnamese Music CDs with traditional musical plays and Vietnamese classical folk songs.
	Vietnamese Traditional Musical Instruments - They are the musical instruments for some vietnamese traditional music. some of them are the belong to the vietnamese ethnic minority groups. They are original folk music instrument.
	Jewelry Boxes - Hand made Vietnamese jewelry boxes with mother of pearl inlaid
	Vietnamese Quilts/Hmong Quilts - These quilts are made in Hoa Binh province, and some remote mountainous areas in the north of Vietnam. Quilts are the cultural products of Hmong people. We have a variety of quilt collection from “Hmong Den”, “Hmong Trang”, and “Hmong Hoa” people. They use their ancient techniques to make quilts such as using bee wax, cross stitching, and hand sewing. The technique make the quilt authentic and different from the “modern/industrial quilts” that we usually see in the market. The colors of the quilts come from nature. They use the natural material (leaves, dirt, roots, nuts, charcoal, ...) to color the quilts. These quilts are authentic by their beauty and uniqueness.
	Lacquerware -
	Silver Plated - 100% hand made in Vietnam: beautiful silver trays, boxes, bowls with exquisite carving. You can also find cute silver plated figure and tiny boxes.
	Vietnamese Bamboo Paintings - These paintings are made by bamboo, a typical vietnamese material. The Ensemble Bamboo Paintings are made of many pieces of bamboo on the natural bamboo fine sticks background, while the Smoked Bamboo Paintings are made by using knife scraping on the background.
	2008 Lunar Calendars - Each 2007 Silk Calendar is printed in both English and Vietnamese. The lunar calendar is the small print in the bottom of each date. The size of these calendars is about 16" x 38". Background is bright white. These pictures are a little dark.
	Vietnamese Traditional Hat - Vietnamese Northern Hat, Non Quai Thao is the vietnamese name for this hat. Vietnamese norhern girls wear these hat with the northern outfit, Ao Tu Than, the four flaps outfit.
	Vietnamese Dolls - These beautiful dolls are vietnamese. They are wearing vietnamese traditional dress and performing some vietnamese traditional instrument. Everything: their outfits and musical instruments are hand made in Vietnam.
	Ceramic Plates-Mini Tea Sets - Tea pots and plates hand made in Vietnam.
	Special Items - This category is for special items which have never been in America. These items have special vietnamese cultural aspects. They represent the vietnamese cultural life from a very common thing like playing card, transport vehicles to the original artwork. They are the vivid images of Vietnam and vietnamese life.
	Dong Ho Paintings - The background of the paintings is hand made from the bark of a tree called Dzo. The bark of Dzo is stored in the water for months, then grounded grounded and mixed with sea shell. See more...
	Silk Scarves and Fans - They are beautiful scarves imported from China and Hongkong. We have a variety of designs and colors which are fitted to your outfits for four seasons. They are extremly soft to touch your skin and very elegant.
	Chinese Corner - This is a corner for chinese artwork. We would like to introduce the artwork which represent for the traditional chinese folk art such as Scroll paintings, Silk embroidery paintings, chinese dolls.
	Gift Certificates - Can't decide on the perfect gift? Order a gift certificate in any of the below amounts. We will mail you an attractive certificate containing a special code the recipient can use to order anything they want on this website. In a hurry? We can email you the code, normally the same day.
	Northern Outfits - Ao Tu Than: Vietnamese traditional northern outfits

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