Tay Ho village - The original of Hue conic hat

Tay Ho village - The original of Hue conic hat

The village of Tay Ho is the birthplace of a conic hat - an item considered a beauty of Hue.



Situated on the Nhu Y River, Tay Ho Village (Phu Ho Commune, Phu Vang District, Thua Thien Hue Province) has long been famous for its traditional conic hat-making. Hundreds of hats were built in the hut - a feature of Hue also comes from the Tay Ho conic hat (the land has been famous for many beautiful girls, handsome boys in the area).




The inhabitants of Tay Ho are always proud of their hometown origin of the poem of Hue.

The poem hat was born in Tay Ho as a coincidence: It was around 1959 - 1960, Bui Quang Bac - a hat artist, also a poetic lover in the village has the initiative: put a poem in the hat (at that time, the conical hats in Hue are mainly sold in the market of the southern provinces).



Tay Ho village girls learn to make conic hat from the age of ten and it is their whole life job. Men, in addition to the field work, they also help women do the job of ironing or cutting bamboo to make hat.




With sharp markers, they groom each bamboo fiber into 16 finely woven rims; Then bend round to round and polished. The woman sighs and leaves the leaf. In order to have a nice leaf, the worker usually chooses light green leaves and leaves the leaves for flat and smooth.




When building and roofing, the craftsman must be smart so that when the leaves are not overlapped many layers so that the hat can stick and thin. Sewing hat are the decisive step to the formation and beauty of the hat. The worker will sew from the top down to the rim of 15 cm per 1 cm of transparent charge. The last ring of white, two needles separated by 2 cm. The line should be soft, light, gentle.

When the cone finishes, people add a cone which is made of a glossy shade to make the charm, then cover the oil several times, drying enough to make the hat just beautiful and durable. What makes the most distinctive of Tay Ho Leaf cones compared to the same product of many other conic hat hometown of Hue is the slim shape, thin, conical color and especially the poem installed in the hat.




Initially, conic hat was made by the people of Tay Ho have been loved by everyone. Since then, the hats makers in Tay Ho began to mass-produce hat, selling them in the market. The verses pressed into the hats are also more diverse and richer, often the verse about Hue.

In addition, to make the hat more beautiful, people also pressed on the pictures of Perfume River, Ngu Mountain next to the poem. Over a long time, the conic hat is the exclusive product of Tay Ho hats. Then, according to common sense, the girls in Tay Ho village went to other village to get married. They brought their traditional hat-making job to all over the countryside.




From Tay Ho, the conic hats go to other regions and become familiar in the everyday life of every Hue woman. Only with the simple materials of coconut leaves, and the poem hat still become the "jewelry" of many girls.




With many people, picking a hat, picking a strap is also a fun so many people have done the feat to make hats to set their own with the favorite lines. At school, the roads along the Perfume River softened in the hot summer sun by the slender figure with white dress, white hat and hair vow.




The young face hidden behind the brightly lit hat has become a very Hue impression, very Vietnamese.