 Making paper masks for over 30 years  Busy for the mid-Autumn festival  Hoa’s wife sharing the workload  aBusiness in the 1980s These days, the clients are reducing in number and the craft itself seems to be fading. Still, they keep up their business in order to save the trade for posterity. The folding, gluing and meticulous construction of the masks makes it a time-consuming process. Only after paint is applied they are ready for buyers.  Drying process  Meticulously-made masks  Diverse designs  Time-consuming work The couple makes thousands of paper masks of all kinds for the festival. Their products are diverse in design, many resembling famous characters from Vietnamese literature, such as Chi Pheo and Thi No. Others look like the heads of animals. Sunny days are much more productive for them, when they can make around 20 masks. If it rains, however, their output is much lower.   Masks of famous Vietnamese figures  A buffalo  Children's favourites By Song Ha – Le Tu, dtinews.vn |
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