Next to Nam Ngam stream

Delta - The Lao ethnic community still retains its distinct and unique traditional cultural features; Among them, the most prominent are traditional women's dresses and shirts.

Delta - The Lao ethnic community still retains its distinct and unique traditional cultural features; Among them, the most prominent are traditional women's dresses and shirts.

Lao women know how to weave from a very early age. To complete a dress or shirt requires a lot of time, effort and a woman's ingenuity. For background parts that need dark colors, Laotians use cotton fibers to weave them into white cloth and then dye them with a mixture of indigo leaves, lime, and ash water within a week. The skirt and parts that need to be patterned, the woman uses indigo-dyed thread and weaves. After creating colorful fabrics, they will be cut and sewn into traditional costumes.

Spools of colored thread are used to weave skirt legs and parts that need elaborate patterns (small photo).

The background parts that need to be dark in color will be dyed with indigo for the whole fabric.

Lao women's textile products are all handmade, hidden behind the patterns and motifs are stories, legends and the surrounding environment through generations. Each weaver will have their own way of looking, feeling and mixing colors; Therefore, each dress often has more or less differences in small patterns. At the same time, the Lao people are an ethnic group that has moved to different areas to live and settle, so with each settlement, traditional cultural features are often influenced and influenced to suit the living environment and environment. the worldview of indigenous people.

The color of the patterns on the dark indigo background will have slight differences, depending on the living environment of the Lao ethnic community.

Basically, the way costumes are created and the parts that make up dresses and shirts rarely change; The main changes are in color schemes, motifs, and patterns. Like the Lao people in Na Sang village, Nua Ngam commune, Dien Bien district. Normally, the patterns and color combinations of Lao girls' costumes here are hot colors of red and yellow combined with green and blue of water, mountains, forests, and grass, creating a stylized and harmonious look. , fresh and peaceful like the name that Lao people give to the stream flowing through Na Sang, Nam Ngam stream (beautiful, fresh, pure stream, like a Lao girl).

Normally, a traditional dress or shirt takes nearly a month to complete.

It can be said that traditional cultural features will change and adapt over a long period of time, however, the core values ​​of thoughts, emotions, and philosophy of life will not degenerate because of that, but It is further built up and accumulated over time, like the indigo color on traditional costumes, showing the historical flow of the Lao people.

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Update day : 12/10/2023