Làng Nghề Đan Lát M Nông
Làng Nghề Đan Lát M Nông
Làng Nghề Đan Lát M Nông
M ’Nong is one of three and the largest indigenous ethnic group in Dak Nong
province, who has lived in this area for thousands of years. This region used
to be called the M’Nong plateau showing the importance of this ethnicity.
Their way of life is closely related to the forest and they deeply
understand every hill, mountain, terrain. That has helped them to
protect their territory through many fights among various tribes and
even invaders from oversea. M’ Nong know how to live and survive
in the jungle by using natural materials. With the area of 963,5ha,
Kon Hao village has the highest population of the M’Nong ethnic
group (nearly 5,000 people), living together with Kinh, Ma and Dao
people. Local M’Nong ethnic group maintains many traditional
handcrafts like knitting, brocade weaving. Traditional knitting requires
well- crafted, precise skills but now is mostly kept as archive through
memory, from generation to generation. Men of the family are in charge of
knitting objects for agriculture, life, hunting and collecting, such as: large and
flat basket, etc...Material for knitting is from various kinds of bamboo, with
rattan (for tying corners, straps, product patterns). Material is chosen by
experience, not too young or too old bamboo, yellow or green long rattan for
tying to ensure the flexibility and smoothness. Knitting skill mainly is single
set, double set or triple set for each bamboo bar, or hexagon setting with
complicated bamboo bar knotting. There are many shapes of pattern
such as fish bone, canari shape around the object trunk and chop.
The mainly colors are smoky brown and black from soaking in mud
or scrubbing with coal to create the shiny appearance. Every
finished product is placed above a fire to smoke-dry and increase its
strength. Currently, in this village, there are more than 10 good
skilled knitting artisans from a young generation who have
inherited the skills. The knitted products are necessary objects
having strong agricultural associations with the local ethnic group.
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