What are handicrafts? Handicraft items?

1. What are handicrafts?

Handicraft is a profession that belongs to the field of design art, created in a very special and extremely meticulous way from the hands of artisans. Handicrafts always receive high appreciation for their aesthetic, artistic as well as usefulness that crafts bring. The artisans and workers who create handicrafts are appreciated as talented artists with soft hands painting on motifs that are likened to gold like jade.

In Vietnam, handicrafts have a very large number, it can be said that throughout the territory of Vietnam, each region has typical handicraft products and most of the product motifs are bold. national culture. Besides, many products have a long history of development passed down from generation to generation that are valuable to this day.

2. Characteristics of handicrafts:

Handicrafts are products created from skillful hands and creativity of artisans who receive each product contains the quintessence of the nation, for that reason crafts always bring unique qualities. characteristics associated with the national identity of Vietnam.

First, culture

Unlike industrial production, which is mainly produced by machines in the production of handicrafts, labor mainly relies on skillful hands and creative minds of craftsmen and artisans. The products made have both use value but also bear the unique identity that is symbolized by a certain craft village, a locality, a certain countryside. For that reason, the cultural content of handicraft products is much higher than that of mass-produced industrial goods.

Handicrafts in Vietnam have appeared for a long time in Vietnam as art products produced from the time of the Hung Kings when our ancestors were in the process of building and defending the country until today. excavated, discovered and displayed in ethnic museums such as Dong Son bronze drum, Ngoc bronze drum; Thereby, the world has come to know a Vietnamese culture through products that vividly and deeply reflect the culture, ideology and society of the Hung Kings era. Up to now, a number of cultural handicraft products such as Bat Trang ceramics, or dishes and dishes, imbued with Vietnamese culture such as peanut birds, Kim Quy gods, lotus flowers, etc., have been widely displayed. worldwide through export and tourism activities. From the unique contours of handicraft products, foreigners can learn about Vietnamese culture.

It can be said that these features are a strong attraction for customers, especially international visitors, creating a unique and separate culture of the S-shaped land. In tourism activities, these items are will be special souvenirs for foreign tourists traveling in Vietnam

Tourists visiting Vietnam cannot help but bring home a handicraft item, even though this item is simple and rustic unlike the attractive technology items but the This has become a cultural product with high artistic value and is considered a symbol of the traditional craft of the Vietnamese nation.

Second, the aesthetic

Products with high aesthetic value, each handicraft product is a work of art, having both use value and aesthetic value. Handicraft products, besides being created for the purpose of use, often carry on them elegant lines, so many products are both for consumption and as decorative objects in homes, temples. pagodas, offices, museums, etc. The products are a combination of sophisticated and unique craft methods with the artistic creative mind of the artisans; Unlike with industrial products that are mass-produced by machines, all manufactured goods are the same, but the pattern is often rigid. handicrafts are created by hand, mainly rely on the skillful hands of talented artisans.

It is this feature that has brought rarity to handicraft products. Thanks to that, at international fairs such as EXPO, fairs in NEW YORK, Milan (Italy) ... handicrafts have attracted the attention of international customers because of the sophistication in the lines and patterns. Carved on products, or unique designs, although the materials are very simple, when through the talented hands of the artisans, they have become works of art with high aesthetic value.

Third, singularity

Traditional handicrafts are unique and have their own nuances of each craft village. The same is ceramics, but people can still distinguish which is Bat Trang, Tho Ha, Huong Canh... thanks to the patterns, enamel colors, textures on it.

In addition, the uniqueness is due to the fact that Vietnamese handicrafts carry the soul of the Vietnamese people, carry the culture and identity of the Vietnamese nation, thus helping to differentiate in the international market. with the items of the