Dong Xam village locates in the east of Kien Xuong district, Hong Thai commune. The silver engraving job in Dong Xam appeared in XVII century. Synonymously, it has existed for about 400 years. Firstly, it was absolutely a job including welding, bending basin, creating knife and scissor, fixing lock, making handle and spout of pot, hubble-bubble … then, the craftsmen turned to creating jewellery, being specialised in silver engraving.

Like different senior craft jobs like bronze casting, metallurgy, jewellery creating career brings high income for the craftsmen, the technique is strongly complicated thus Dong Xam people have perpetually kept the career secret for many years. Up to now, though the technique isn't monopoly of Dong Xam manufacturers anymore, a number of the most complicated technical and artistic operations are still kept secretly. The recent community of silver engraving craftsmen created strict rules noted within the conventions of the village that noted that: anyone who told the career secret to people from different places and villages; or created the fake products to cheat people, making impiety are going to be strongly punished or crushed before the Ancestor’s altar, or removed from the list of community.

Silver stores of Dong Xam are completely different and a lot of special ones than in different places thanks to strange varieties of form and look of the product; complicated and balance decoration projects that are good and clearly show with the key topic; light-dark operating method primarily based on the reflective feature of silver. The typical features of Dong Xam silver products are the delicate virtuosity and maximum perfectness. It is often said that Dong Xuan silver artisans with their talent and carefulness have make clients satisfactory, they are the most fastidious and knowledgeable in the art. Nowadays, most of Dong Xuan craftsmen work in the village, several people become wealthy. A number of craftsmen, particularly young ones attend several different places, manufacturing as well as coaching. In each environment, since up to now, Dong Xam silver manufacturers have regularly place the credibility, talent on the primary priority. They have kept ethic, conscience of the craftsmen and technical elite of the country’s ancient job.

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