Young girl and Traditional Paper Creation Journey
Passionate with traditional paper, the young girl Doan Thai Cuc Huong has created applied products, helped the traditional handmade paper to “live” with a new, diverse and close life with the game. Modern life.
The traditional paper and paper are used by the young 9x girl Doan Thai Cuc Huong to create applied products, decorative lights, hand -held fans, postcards … Bold traditional culture, both containing contemporary breathing. Passionate with the traditional paper of the girl has helped the traditional craft paper to “live” with a new life, diverse and close to modern life.
* Fantasy and love for traditional paper
The craft craft workshop of Thai Cuc Huong delegation is located in a small alley on Dong Tac Street (Dong Da District, Hanoi), only more than a dozen square meters, including many handicraft products, from the chao Lights with many different sizes, handheld fans, to notebooks, calendars, paintings, postcards, envelopes … all are created by chrysanthemums from those paper, paper Tradition, with rustic colors, bold cultural nature.
“Little owner” Doan Thai Cuc Huong was bowing, meticulously painting each pattern on a decorative lampshade. According to skillful hands, sophisticated decorative patterns gradually exist.
Doan Thai Cuc Huong said that she was born, growing up in a family with a father who touched fine art wooden furniture. From a young age, she loved the fine art wooden works formed from her father’s hands and always loved the products with bold traditional culture.
The predestined relationship to bring Thai Cuc Huong delegation to products made from traditional Vietnamese paper is very accidental. It was around the beginning of 2021, in her spare time, she signed up to join Wokshop to experience a friend’s dried flower. Upon arrival, Huong was given a piece of paper to make the flower base.
Touching the ram and ram paper with fancy lines, the young girl was attracted to the difference and the strange rustic beauty of that sheet. After asking and knowing that it was a paper, a product of traditional craft village, Huong kept the switch forever: Why is there such a beautiful paper …
Returning, Cuc Huong spent more time learning and detecting, the products applied from traditional paper were not much. She thought, such a beautiful traditional paper only to write and draw really and that product would not come to many people …
Doan Thai Cuc Huong said, at that time, she was an English teacher at a school in Hanoi, translated Covid-19 raging, school holidays, she could not teach. The days around at home, Huong wanted to do something to relieve sadness. She remembered that paper, paper, so it was self -groping, testing … The first product Huong was launched was the paper lampshade with the decorative motifs from dried flowers, praised by friends. Later, she made some more handmade products from the paper, traditional paper to use herself, to satisfy her joy and love for those traditional rustic paper.
Friends found her skillful, encouraged, encouraged and advised her to think about manufacturing and developing manual products into commodity products. At this time, Cuc Huong seriously thought about research and creation of traditional paper applied products. From here, the journey to create craft products from traditional paper of Thai Cuc Huong delegation begins. In addition to the types of table lamps, night lights, decorative lights created from traditional paper, later, chrysanthemum expanded to make more products, such as: Mo fan, folding fan, record book, tickling lamp , military pull lights, jewelry, envelopes, postcards …
Never studied through the art class, but when deciding to embark on manual products, she hardly had much difficulty. “My father works as a carpenter, often chiseling with patterns, decorative motifs on wood. When I was a child, I often watched my father work, those traditional patterns were soaked into me naturally. Perhaps so, although I did not learn, but when I embarked on manufacturing craft products, I did not have many difficulties, ”Cuc Huong shared.
* Creation from traditional paper
Looking at the creative Thai Cuc Huong products from traditional paper, viewers cannot help but admire, admire the skillful hands of the young girl. Cuc Huong said, in order to create a product, she came up with the idea, from the shape, ratio, size, then taking step by step to avoid errors. The lampshades, the mo fans are cut, compensate, paste and draw on traditional patterns, floral motifs of all kinds, such as: lotus, peach blossom, apricot … Mac and bold Vietnamese culture. The notebooks are handmade from traditional paper, dyeing natural colors from the soil, leaves, plating with Bodhi leaf bones is also popular. Realizing that the paper material is suitable for making wooden engraving, chrysanthemums also make wood carvings to print decoration on the lampshade very sophisticated, with ancient pattern patterns look very beautiful.
The fans were made from traditional paper by Thai Cuc Huong. (Photo: Character provided)
Looking at Cuc Huong cherishing each piece of paper, paper in handmade products, the opposite person is not difficult to feel her special love for traditional Vietnamese paper. Cuc Huong said, she had returned to the traditional village to produce paper, witnessing the stages that doctors and uncles made those handicrafts. From going to the forest to take the tree, to the stage of sitting bark, soaking, incubating, crushing, pressing, drying … to produce a piece of paper, it takes nearly 1 month. So, she regretted every small paper crumpled and always thought of how to take advantage, not wasteful.
Big paper sheets used to make big lamps, smaller pieces of paper making books, postcards, envelopes or fans … The paper is gathered to grind as a paper … all are made meticulously and carefully. Even the color to use in products, also made from natural colors, cajeput trees, litchi bark, some other colors such as yellow, brown color she made from different soils …
The biggest desire of the Thai Cuc Huong delegation is how to create a lot of more handicraft products applied in daily life from traditional paper. Thus, Huong can both contribute a small effort to preserving traditional cultural values and can bring traditional cultural values closer to the public and foreign public. Cuc Huong is aiming to make his creative workshop a cultural space, welcoming domestic and foreign tourists to visit. There, she could have just introduced her handicraft products, telling stories about traditional professions and tourists if they want, can also make themselves a product from traditional paper.
“I want people to know more, respect the traditional profession and handicraft products of Vietnamese people, so that Vietnamese craft products have a foothold in the domestic and foreign markets,” said Doan Thai. Cuc Huong shared./.