Mat Weaving
Sit beside our weavers and learn the patterns passed down through generations.
Experiences
Live the village, don't just visit it.
Workshops are included for guests whenever available. Every Sunday from 2:30 to 3:30 PM, we host a free cultural workshop on the deck.
Rice Cracker (Bánh Đập)
Pound, grill and crack rice paper over an open flame — a Quảng Nam ritual.
Pottery
Shape local clay on the wheel with our village ceramicist.
Lantern Making
Build a Hoi An silk lantern frame by frame and bring the light home with you.
Village Life
Walk the rice fields, share tea with neighbours, learn how the village really lives.
The mat looms
Reeds, a wooden loom, and an afternoon.
Quảng Nam has woven sedge mats for around five hundred years, and Triêm Tây is one of the handful of villages the province still counts as a weaving village. It is a fragile list to be on. Nearby An Phước lost its certificate when the last weavers stopped — the rush beds shrinking under new roads, the river turning salt, a day at the loom paying less than a coffee. Ours still weave. Sit down and they will teach you.
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Cut
Sedge is cut by hand with a sickle from the marshy ground along the river.
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Split and dry
Each stem is split lengthways and laid in the sun until it pales to straw.
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Dye
Bundles go into pots of hot dye — red, yellow, purple, green — then back out to dry.
04
Weave
Two to a loom: one slides each reed through on a long needle, the other beats the frame down to lock it.
This is the part you do — the looms are a few minutes' walk from your room.
A mat takes an afternoon, four hands, and someone willing to learn the pattern.
Sundays · 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Free cultural workshop, every week.
Each Sunday brings a different artisan to the deck. Guests are welcome to join, learn and leave with something made by their own hands. Contact us for details on the upcoming activity.
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