A journey through the image of a water hyacinth knitting village in Vietnam

In the Vietnamese countryside, water hyacinth and seagrass are diverse available aquatic plants, … and there have been long-standing handicraft villages with skilled artisans, you know?

Let’s take a tour around the Vietnamese craft village through the vivid images of photographer Do Hieu Liem, so that we can know the handicraft products created from the processing of raw materials at different stages and the skillful hands of the artisans here.

Seagrass and water hyacinth are aquatic plants available in Vietnam’s countryside.

Farmers harvest water hyacinth along the riverside by boat. They carefully cut the plants that are already large enough and have strong stems.

Water hyacinth after harvest is trimmed of leaves to select standard long hyacinth stems for knitting.

After sorting and selecting the standard stems, they are dried along the road on several hot days

Well-dried stems are now ready for making handicraft items

Well-dried stems are now ready for weaving handicraft items. Artisans gather into a group to knit and share their experiences

Weaving water-hyacinth baskets

Completed products are cleaned and checked before reaching out to customers.

By photographer Do Hieu Liem