Phu cam conical hat town - Phu cam conical hat town

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hopviettravel - 2009/12/19, 02:52 GMT+7 - Total view: 890

Phu cam conical hat town

Phu Cam-made hats look graceful, soft and thin as silk. Hue landscapesor even poems can be seen clearly through the hats in the sunshine.

It takes woman much time to make the frame and iron leaves before younggirls start sewing. The beauty and grace of a hat depend much on theframe (made of 16 brims from the hem to the top). Artisans use sharpknives to prepare the brims and make the frame that needs skills,techniques and experiences, as well as mathematical calculations whichhave been handed down for generations.

Leaves to make hat playa vital part, leaves have to be blue-white, neither too young nor tooold. Collected leaves are to be put to dry in the sun, put to bemoistened by dewdrops, and then to be ironed flat on a steel- plankabove a kiln, cleaned with a towel. After all this, leaves are cut tofit the frame.

How to arrangethe leaves on to the frame is not easy. Each hat needs 50 leaves andbetween the leaves are coloured papers with pictures or paintings oflandscapes, or even poems. Hat-makers are hardworking, careful, anddiligent. Hats are served with silk-threads and the chin-straps aremade of coloured silk (black, white, yellowish, purple, violet...) toharmonize with Hue climate and beauty.

Poem-hat is adistinctive feature of culture in Hue. Locals say they like to do thejob not only to earn money but to preserve their age-old tradition aspoem-hats have been absorbed into folk music and songs. Today hats arestill used by young girls to shade their heads in the sun and to makethem look more graceful in the traditional Ao Dai (long dress).

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