How One Vietnamese Village Is Keeping An 800-Year-Old Paper-Making Tradition Alive | Still Standing 

Dó paper has become more popular among younger artists nowadays. I have used it and it feels like somewhat between cloth and paper. It's also great with watercolor if you don't do much layering. Dó paper is offered in many different thickness, sizes and colors.

Everyone talks about preserving culture & traditional Crafts like this but because of todays economic conditions not many people want to do this kind of work because it's not financially beneficial I hope there's a way to preserve this beautiful craft. 😭maybe they could do classes where people could learn them or make their own yt channel & show the process

I am Korean and I love Vietnamese culture. I like Vietnamese food and traditional clothes the most. Let's hope that the beautiful traditions of Vietnam will continue!

I’m now 19 and this is the 1st time i’ve heard about Vietnamese handcrafted paper tradition. Yes, im a Vietnamese and never knew this was a thing… until now. Crazy!

I’d love to learn and/or support so many of the artisans featured in these videos. I wish there was an easier way to connect these small businesses with interested people who are watching

I would hope that the local artists continue to support the traditional crafters. It is great way to keep the trade alive.

Being born here in America, I'm glad my parents made my siblings & I speak only Vietnamese at home. I can speak & understand Viet the only thing I need to learn it to learn how to write in Vietnamese. I love to learn all the history from all different cultures! ❤️

Thanks BI for bringing such qualified documents As a Vietnamese, I don’t know such things still exist until watching your documents. I do hope that more and more videos about Vietnam traditional & cultural stuffs will be produced in the future. Pls pay your attention more to the southern area too where you can find wonderful sources of content❤

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I would like to see traditional Vietnamese, Japanese, and Chinese kites made from this paper, hand painted with traditional designs by local artists. Very light, and very artistic kites, that could fly on the lightest breeze.

I seen some potential for this paper as gift wrapper or wrapper alternative to plastics such as furushiki since many young people becoming environmentally friendly.

That "Chair"? The throne he casually sits at suggests a true patron of master woodworking. $0.02 nice.

It is so fascinating to see this craft still going. We should not forget the past

Papermaking has a very long history, and I have to sigh the wisdom of ancient people. After reading it, I feel amazing. I hope that more traditional culture can be known to future generations and can be well protected and inherited.

I hope this craft is kept alive into the future, it is worthy of saving and may actually be needed. The old ways should always be remembered and preserved. We never know when they will be needed again, this world is relying on something that could easily fail and be taken away.

Love the respectfulness from Business Insider 🐁

As a vietnamese, i has yet known this tecnique until seeing video

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As a Vietnamese, I hope this traditional craft will last forever but sadly it's hard when young people show they don't care about preserve it. Unfortunately, these traditional crafts have been faded away.

I have Ethiopian roots and took the initiative to learn more about Ethiopian history and while there aren't many sources I could find one thing I learned about was the habesha kemis (traditional Ethiopian dress) I remember seeing a religious painting dating as far back as the 15th century depicting people a religious figures wearing these traditional dresses. I asked my mom about it who was born a raised in he capitol city of Addis Ababa and she told me about the unique hand woven cotton and the handmade telet used to add colour and personality to an otherwise simple dress. She also told me about how due to her skin sensitivity to polyester fabrics wearing these types of dresses to church (as many people even in western cities still do to this day) can become a bit of a hassle. Due to the lightweight cotton threads used to weave the panels of fabric the finished product comes out quite sheer, there have been different methods of maintaining modesty whilst wearing the dress such as layering the skirt with more of the raw, organic hand made cotton material or even silk however, because of high material cost and hard the physical labour put in to making the fabrics more and more dress makers opt to use a cheap polyester material to line the skirt often affecting the fit and feel of the finished product making it more uncomfortable to wear, especially for the women who wear these dresses to church where mass lasts a minimum of 3-4 hours. This issue, in my opinion, is adversely affecting women in larger cities who don't readily have access to Ethiopian dress makers and instead have to order dresses sight unseen months in advance and wait up to a year to then receive the dress in the mail only to then have to figure out if the dresses fit and if their comfortable enough to wear and what types of modifications have to be made. whereas if they lived in Ethiopia would have the ability to speak to the weavers face to face a negotiate extra fabric to be made or even have the supplies and materials to do the weaving themselves at home.

Very insightful! Really loving the recent stuff that has been coming from this segment! Great job!!

I don't need these type of papers, but I would gladly support him and donate his craft to people who need his products.

Although I am a young man in the same province of artisans in this video, only about 20 km (12.5 miles) from my place, I have never heard of this paper. Perhaps their products are not for everyone. Thanks BI.

I love Vietnamese culture, love from India....

I always watch your vids everytime you guys upload a new one esp this category. Thank you and more power

Nothing compares to hand crafted items. Hopefully your country will see you as valuable and help you survive and thrive.

Vietnam is an innovative country--well done! 👏

Love this subject matter.

Thank you for bringing this craft to light. I am Vietnamese and did not even know about this.

Hey Team Business Insider; i have a request of please checking out the dhokra art of chattisgarh, India as it is the very left form of art alive now in this Modern World. 🥺

I love paper crafts. Paper is one of the most versatile materials. Is this paper exported? How can overseas people buy this paper?

That’s so sad to hear his kids don’t want to learn it. I know it’s hard but if my mom taught me more Vietnamese traditions I’d be really happy to learn and know cause I always feel a disconnect even though I am Vietnamese. We celebrate New Years and we cook traditional Vietnamese food but we don’t talk about history like this. I’d love to learn something like this if my parents wanted to teach me it.

Main, from Ascendance of a Bookworm, would definitely love this!

I love to watch all these videos. They sure open my eyes to so many things which are disappearing that we as a world need to try to preserve. Who cares about machine made when handmade is so much better? So many jobs have been lost to machines and prices have only risen, not gone down. It takes away the pride in doing a job when all you're doing is pushing a button.

Very interesting! I enjoyed learning about this.

The amount of effort into making this paper is crazy.

We need to understand that being at the top of the pyramid of creation means that everything we do trickles down the structure, from top to bottom. When it reaches the bottom, the inanimate level of reality, from which everything grows, it changes it. If we ooze ill-will, it creates negative changes throughout the system, which manifest in increasingly extreme climatic and geological events. In other words, when human relationships go out of balance, everything goes out of balance. When our relations become extreme, everything becomes extreme; when we become violent, everything becomes violent. Each summer, the ramifications of the linkage between our relations and our world become more extreme, until we acknowledge that everything that exists, exists in a connected, hierarchical system and that whoever is at the top determines the state of the rest of the system. It is not as if previously, we were better people than we are today. It is simply that there were fewer people, and therefore fewer elements that exude ill will. Also, relationships between people in the past were less toxic than they are today. While there are fewer wars today than ever, the levels of suspicion and alienation between people are skyrocketing, to the point where people can no longer trust their own family members. As a result, wars between countries are rarer than ever, but divorce rates, domestic violence, and violence in the community, are at an all-time high. Even the internet, which we invented purportedly in order to connect people, is being used to abuse, deceive, and exploit people. The world-wide-web proves that everything we create, we use against others. When there is such a negative element in a system, and that element is at the top of the system, how can the entire system not go awry? Therefore, if we want the weather to cool, the sea-level to drop, and the storms to subside, we must cool the fire and calm the storms between us. Mutual concern, mutual responsibility, or at least the knowledge that we are dependent on each other, are necessary in order to restore balance in our world at all levels, from the ground we walk on to the hatred in our hearts.

Thank you for telling us about this wonderful paper! My mother is an historian and is thrilled to receive letters from me on Zo paper. She especially loves the history behind it. I will definitely buy more for my letters.

I need some sent to my house asap ! Perseverance

This may sound silly, so I apologize in advance, but as she's sieving and creating the sheets, as they're all wet in that big pile, how come they don't end up as one big block all stuck together, how do they retain there separate status? That's my question, thank you.

Excellent Art 👍👍

Thậm chí ko biết giấy dó còn đến ngày nay. Thank you for letting us Vietnamese know a great old tradition still existed

That paper looks tasty.

I like how when he brushes the paper the photo starts to appear

You should have seen my grandniece and grandnephew watching this video while holding the paper in their hands. Bravo to all who keep the art alive and to the parents who encourage their kids to learn and appreciate beauty!

Don't let history and it's past be forgotten.

The women has spoken clearly and grammatically, I think you don’t need to make the subtitles for her.

I admire their efforts and if it finds away to modern printers it would be flourish and increasing in volume and will be able to survive

Beautiful paper 📃 I'd like to have some! I really want to learn how to make it!

and this material is good for making clothes, curtains, and umbrellas

BI, thank you a lot for this brilliant video. Despite being a Vietnamese, I did not know about this tradition. The more modern the life is, the more these kinds of craft are getting lost. It's a true, but very sad story. Btw, hope all you guys love this video and Vietnam too. If you have to move to another country for any purposes, Vietnam welcomes you!

Beautiful❤

Lots of love from india ❤️❤️❤️

Holy macaroni! It looks like super thin cloth, not paper! That's amazing!!! 🤩

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this channel deserve 20million subs! i always watching your video

What a beautiful tradition. It would be very sad indeed if it were lost. I wish I could buy some of the paper myself.

6:56 I love when she says: They are more interested in this CRAP

❤️ Thank you!!!!

Nice video.

Nice

I want to buy these traditional Vietnamese Do papers someday in 2023 so I can draw and colour pictures of the Megazords.

history living right there

I hope this ancient art can be saved

I hope he gets some students to continue the tradition❤

this traditional life is more beautiful, honest and humble than the city destructive soul destroying life

Cool work

Good.

In India's Assam we to have a Paper making "Old Art", I really don't know why they said Paper invented in China.

Hats off to Vietnamense culture for this very eco-friendly form of paper. The whole world 🌎 would be better off if it could use this paper instead of what we use today.

They can make master classes for some money and also make tourists groups come there for look and classes and could make much money .

I placed my first order to write letters to my 83-year-old mother and guarantee I will buy more. Literally a sensory experience!

Forests of northern Vietnam! Any US vets here?

I like your video..make me know a lot culture around world

Can we order? I would like to use this in my painting.

I think this paper has more value that modern paper...more quality 🤔 ❤

Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰

To be honest, as I Vietnamese villager, I am not familiar with this craft paper, the village in the video also in urbanization progress and not sure how long can preserve this kind of handicraft works.

Why would any young people want to do this? They wouldn't. Adapt.

What can we do to help this tradition alive? Love your channel

Ascendance of a bookworm paper

It is a terrible problem that so many traditional crafts, trades, skills and businesses are being lost due to “modern” techniques and laziness, worldwide. 🇦🇺

you mean how they don't want to buy your small but expensive paper made out of polluting process?

Video appears on my recommendations Me watching the first 5 sec before reading the title: are they panning for gold?

super interesting.

Traditional crafts like this are valuable but only as history for museums. When a cheaper and more effective method is found then the old one dies.

This would be the best and top of the line of parchment paper when you using it for different religious and spiritual things to write on it's beautiful 💯‼️🎉✨🥳😇🥰🎊📺📺📺📽️💯‼️

Its look like japanes paper making style

Proud my mine

Awesome vdo

One day, If I get to open my own coffee shops I'll contact them to make my menu tp be written on the paper.

Can you do one report about Janggu drum making in Korea?

My startup was based on preserving local bandhani fabric crafts. But it failed due to lockdown, lack of support and peoples obsession with cheap chinese and factory goods.

if internaltional buyers could purchase and get it shipped easily they would do so much business

How do they keep each sheet from sticking and just becoming a block??

Omg...woww

Hand made paper is always fantastic, but if this is made from tree bark it will have standard acidity issues over time that cloth-based papers have less issue with.

can i go work for this man?

Hopefully you can feature the “Asin Tibook” of Bohol, Philippines

Do the trees regenerate after having their bark stripped??