Hat making village of Tay Ho poem

Location: Village West Lake hat poem lies Nhu Y River, Phu Ho commune, Phu Vang district, Thua Thien - Hue.
Characteristics: West Lake Village is the birthplace of the hat poem - an item is regarded as both the beauty of the soul of Hue.
Until now, people who no longer remember West Lake hosiery leaves appear in his village ever since, just know that through many ups and downs of history, they still rely on this job for a living.

Why do not you visit home
Kids watching the first conical hats
Leaves hand building, hands regularly hats
Sixteen rim, sixteen moon up
(Poem knitted hats Nguyen Khoa Diem)

Conical hats profession not only for women but also the men in the family can also help polish rims, conical frame. With excellent grade trees, they polished each bamboo fiber into 16 spokes rims a sophisticated way; then bending the truth ring rounded and polished. Cried the woman, the board edges and leaves. To have beautiful leaves, workers usually choose cone leaves remain green light board repeatedly leaves and smooth. When construction and roofing sheets, workers must skillfully so that when wedge leaves no overlap in layers and hats can stick thin. When gazing hat complete, it appends to the cone a "mango" is made only polished to coast, then Oil Minister several times, enough sun exposure to both beautiful and durable cone. What makes the most special feature of the West Lake conical than similar products of many other villages in Hue Cone is slender, thickness, color cones courteous and most especially the poems contained Centre Hue soul set in the hat. In the 60s of the 20th century, Bui Quang Bac - a conical artisans in West Lake and also a poetry lover devised pressing verses in between two layers of foil to the beauty and spiritual values ​​of Hue cone. Accordingly, the craftsmen also carved up the painting style with Linh Mu Pagoda Hue, Truong Tien bridge, a boat on a river with soft words, "The wind brought momentum stems la structure. Thien Mu bell, chicken soup Tho Xuong ... ".
From West Lake, the hat poem go out to streets and become close, familiar in the daily life of every woman Hue. Only with simple ingredients of coconut leaves, wrapped, hats poem has become the "jewels" of so many young women. For many, the choice of hats, look straps should also be a pleasure not a few people who come to your place to do wonders to set your own hat with your favorite line of poetry. After-school sessions, the road side of the river as the sun softened by hot summer with slender figure in white robes, the white hats and hair swear. The young face hidden behind glowing bright hat has become a very Hue impressive, very Vietnam.