Hanoi-the city of 1000-year civilization, boast hundreds of traditional craft villages, each with their own traditional art practice: pottery, mother of pearl inlay, conical hat, embroidery and rattan, bronze casting, conical hat making, carpentry, statue making. Mention paper fan making, often refer to Chang Son village, a small suburb village in Thach That district, Hanoi.
The village has had long-standing history of making fan. From the 19th century, Chang Son fans were well-known at home and abroad, used to be displayed in Paris exhibitions.
Visitors are definitely fascinated by thousands of paper fans in various sizes, designs and colors, drying along the main road and small lanes around the village; diverse types of fans from paper fans to high-class silk and dancing fans used in festivals, tourist firms, serve as props for artists.
Profession fan not too arduous, difficult, but requires the demand sophisticated, meticulous to the extremely stylish. For a desire fan, artisans choose carefully bamboo, being flexible, old aged from roughly 3 years, no termites eaten to make blade of a fan. Paper for making fan is crumpled, flat folds, steady and convenient for panting.
