Tien GiangVĩnh Hựu Craft Village – once known as the old “Broom Hamlet” – has now truly become an established traditional craft village.
The Vĩnh Hựu broom-making village, located in Gò Công Tây District, Tiền Giang Province, stretches along the peaceful Vàm Giồng Canal,
shaded year-round by rows of coconut trees. This area has the largest coconut garden acreage in the district.
Vĩnh Hựu Craft Village – the traditional coconut-stick broom villageThe Story of the Broom
The craft of making coconut-stick brooms in Vĩnh Hựu has existed for a long time. In the early days, only a few dozen households practiced
the trade, but today it has grown significantly.
Initially, people used wild ferns growing along ditches, canals, and the Cửa Tiểu River. Sometimes they had to paddle boats all the way
to the coastal area of Tân Thành to collect the materials, dry them, and bind them with nipa palm fiber strings
(nipa palm fiber is made from the lower trunk of the nipa palm, split and sun-dried) to make household brooms.
Because ferns grow naturally in the wild, the raw materials gradually became scarce. Moreover, brooms made from this material were rather
coarse in shape, so people began replacing them with areca palm sheaths.
In the past, areca palm trees were fully utilized: besides using the sheaths to make brooms, old trunks were used to build houses and shelters.
Areca nuts were used for betel chewing and were indispensable at weddings and engagement ceremonies. Unused fresh areca nuts were dried for storage,
and dried areca nuts were also used in dyeing industries at that time.
Due to wartime devastation, Vĩnh Hựu became a heavily bombarded area, leaving areca palm gardens destroyed and raw materials depleted.
Unable to abandon their traditional craft, many people gradually switched to making brooms from coconut sticks.
The coconut-stick broom-making trade became popular after the early 1970s.
Coconut-stick broom making became widespread after the early 1970sThe Story of the Craft Village
The coconut-stick broom-making craft in Vĩnh Hựu has existed for a long time. According to local elders, the trade appeared in the area
around the 1940s. At first, only a few dozen households
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