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Update news traditional handicraft
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Silk weaving has been a traditional handicraft in Vietnam for thousands of years. Legend has it that the craft was introduced to Co Do village in Hanoi’s outlying district of Ba Vi by the sixth Hung King’s daughter, Princess Thieu Hoa.