Ha Thai village

The traditional Ha Thai lacquer village lies on the old highway 1A, it is about 20km far from Hanoi center. Legendly, Ha Thai lacquer job is appear in the seventeenth century, then. This village is not ancestral of Vietnam's lacquer job, it's lacquer painting was most beautiful because there are many talented, skilled and creative craftmen.

 The first craftmen of this village explored other color materials such as eggs shell, snails, bamboo splint, etc and especially bring technique grind, create a unique lacquer technique for creating lacquer paintings actually. The term lacquer and lacquer appeared since then.Lacquer color using traditional materials like black lacquer, yellow brown lacquer make adhesive matter, and other types of lipstick, silver steel, gold, steel, pearl shell

When new born, lacquer only three colors black paint , red lacquer  and yellow brown paint. Thanks to explore the creative process of many artists, the palette of lacquer is now richer. Splendid colors of lacquer, but loving, visible many layer. Nowadays, people have built successful industrial paints can replace traditional types of lacquer, so many advantages, especially in production easier and color paintings are extremely rich.

When you come here, you could see lacquer job have very elaborately, many stages. Each stage requires a professional to do it patiently, meticulously, take a loving care this job, if not, the complete product will not see a soul anywhere. It can be said lacquer technology only general principles, but differ in experience and techniques of each individual, each family, as it was making technical changes suitable paintings different create statue, different from decorative objects, paint cover golden age ... Technology can be described by a lacquer of the following main stages: bundle of cuttings build, decorate, grinding and polishing