Dong Ho village sits on the south bank of the Duong River near the Ho ferry landing and is the home of the best known folk woodblock prints in Vietnam. Artisans carve wooden blocks and print onto diep paper, a sheet brushed with ground scallop shell mixed with rice paste that gives the surface its shimmer. The colours all come from nature: black from burnt bamboo leaf, blue from copper rust or indigo, yellow from sophora flowers and red from sappan wood and mineral pigment. Each colour needs its own block, so one print passes through several careful impressions. The craft is listed as national intangible cultural heritage and a conservation centre now stands in the village.
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A few more places in this province to keep shaping your route.
Phat Tich Pagoda in Bac Ninh is a hillside Buddhist complex with worship halls, courtyards, statues and paths across its grounds.
A special national relic beside the Duong River, home to the largest wooden Avalokitesvara statue in Vietnam.
Regarded as the oldest pagoda in Vietnam and the first centre of Buddhism in the country, founded in the second century.
The mother temple of the Truc Lam Zen school, holding woodblocks listed by UNESCO Memory of the World in 2012.
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