Kim Son sedge art
Kim Son is the papyrus plant, handmade papyrus oldest and well-known in the North. Sedge handicraft products of Kim Son has been in more than 20 countries and territories around the world.
Kim Son (Ninh Binh) on summer days in June, as well as grain season, one can easily recognize the faint scent, sweet and floral rush of rice aroma.
According to local people recount, papyrus has in Kim Son nearly two centuries. In ancient times, hundreds of years undergoing sea dykes, the Kim Son have created the vast alluvial rush to plant.
White flowers bloom at parrot on the coastal mudflats is when farmers began cutting the trees of the field. Freshly harvested sedge is highly fragmented, dried and brought to market, and from there follow the villages to flower woven into the projector. Gradually, beginning from the initial job screening is done, the Kim Son started manufacturing jobs more items of bamboo handicrafts for export.
According to the Department of Trade and Industry Kim Son, 2011, the total acreage of the district's rush 2 384.3ha service, dry chopped straw production year reached 3,125 tons, producing more than 23 thousand kinds of products ...
Currently, the district has 23 villages and tens sedge large and small businesses. These businesses are the bridge between the villages with domestic and foreign markets in the production and consumption of products. In addition, over time, the organization now also trained more than 800 skilled workers, not only meet the needs of local labor, but also for a number of neighboring provinces such as Thai Binh, Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa ...
Do Nhu Phong, director of enterprise manufacturing exports Dynamic rush in Kim Son said, despite the economy downturn, but the quantity of Gold Mountain sedge art has increased steadily and rapidly consumed on the schools, bringing income from 2-3 million / month for employees.
The reason for the rush of Kim Son handicraft markets, especially foreign markets is preferred because the product is made of natural materials, environmentally friendly, durable, diverse styles and colors excellent but cheap price.
To get a sedge handicraft products export standards, techniques and plant production of Gold Mountain sedge is also quite special. It is a meticulous process, meticulous and accurate right from the papyrus plant, harvest rush, rush pick, chopped straw, dry straw, dyed rush ... until the last stitch is knitting and finishing products. Typically the techniques used spray adhesive coating polyascera the rush, has helped shape a stable industrial designs, while improving the ability to resist mold, moisture products, especially in the transport process through thousands of kilometers by sea during shipment abroad. Whereby the art rush of Kim Son ensure quality when it comes to consumers, contributing greatly to improve competitiveness on the international market.
Also, to get the nice designs to meet customer tastes, businesses rush production also known to coordinate closely with partners to brainstorm ideas and designs. Then, these designs will be ordered by village artisans try and when standards will guide, delivered to households mass production then transferred to the outsourcing business for a final time .
We can say, businesses rush art production in Kim Son is not only sensitive to the market, but also knows cleverly combines traditional techniques with new technologies in production, so it has to meet the most all the requirements of our partners, including orders requiring high technical requirements and must be completed in the shortest possible time.
So far, the Gold Mountain sedge handicrafts have been exported to over 20 countries and territories. And the success he can not just stop here, but go further.
