Located near the Yen Lenh Bridge crossing the Red River, the Nha Xa Village in Moc Nam Commune, Duy Tien District, Ha Nam Province is well known for silk weaving and dyeing and supplying silk products everywhere. The time-honoured village is now enlivened with a bustling working atmosphere with the sounds of power-looms in households. In recent years, Nha Xa silk weaving craft village has affirmed its brand as its products being consumed in big cities across the country and exported to Laos, Thailand and some other countries.

Let’s take a glance at nice photos of the Nha Xa silk village take  by our freelance photographer Nguyen Huu Thanh.

The entrance gate to the Nha Xa silk weaving village

Ripened silkworms

Silk is made from cocoons that are spun by silkworms.

Drying silk

‘Silk clouds’

Drying already-dyed silk

Colourful silk

Reporting by DNO- Translating by A.T