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Craft Villages in Vietnam

Wood Carving Village in Mombasa

Updated: Oct 3, 2026

Akamba handicraft is one of the largest wood carvings industries in Kenya, where you will find approximately 5000 people all working with hands to produce the beautiful African carvings. It is a Kenyan organization that produces high-quality animal, functional and decorative carvings, masks and ornaments, human sculptures, and customized goods.

Dong Xam Silver Plated Village

Updated: Oct 3, 2026

Located in Hong Thai Commune in the North of Kien Xuong District, Dong Xam Silver Village is widely famous for its silver processing which has existed since the 17th century. The fame of Dong Xam Silver is known not only in Vietnam, but also overseas. Silver handicrafts produced here are used in domestic market and exported to some foreign ones, such as Japan, South Korea

Doi Tam Drum production village

Updated: Oct 3, 2026

Drums of Doi Tam Village have been well-known throughout the country. These drums look simple but produce very beautiful sounds that seem to express of the makers. Visiting the village, you will have opportunities to study the secret of this craft. According to custom, drum-making techniques are transferred to sons and their wives, not daughters and their husbands.

The echo of the Baranung drum

Updated: Oct 3, 2026

For the skin of the Baranung, which is played by hand, they would use the skin of a male goat with horns 3 to 5 cm long or a female goat that had given birth seven times. The Cham residing in and around Phan Rang, a coastal town in south-central Vietnam, still preserve seventy-two drum songs used in religious and cultural festivals. In search of the last of the Cham drummers, I took a fact-finding trip to that area.

Pottery village in Vinh Long

Updated: Oct 3, 2026

Two kilometers from downtown after crossing Thieng Duc Bridge on National 31 along Co Chien River, in the distance, you will see heaving kilns with white smoke emitting into the sky. That is the kingdom of red ceramics. The famous pottery craft village which has been in operation for 20 years along the Co Chien River from Vinh Long City, Long Ho District to Mang Thit District. Vinh Long ceramics are popular not only

IOVOP, International One Village One Product Partnerships, is an initiative created by the close co-operation between the Oita OVOP International Exchange Promotion Committee – the initiator of the One Village One Product movement in the world, Vietnam Handicraft Exporters Association (Vietcrat) and Vietnam Rural Industries Research and Development Institute (VIRI). Together with the OVOP member countries, the IOVOP will be organized into five regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, America and Oceania.

Craft Villages in Vietnam

Wood Carving Village in Mombasa

Dong Xam Silver Plated Village

Doi Tam Drum production village

The echo of the Baranung drum

Pottery village in Vinh Long

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