Vietnam's needlework items are many and their patterns of embroidery are also very diversified. The beautiful patterns resemble birds, flowers, plants and human portraits. They include lotus flower, crythansemun, dragons, phoenixes, pairs of old pine tree and a flamingo, a couple of birds, to cite a few. It is in accordance with the purpose of using an embroidery article that an embroidered is likely to choose a certain pattern object of embroidery. There are different patterns exclusively for different items such as shirts, pillow cases, Japanese-style kimono gowns, table covers, bed sheet and wall hangings.
Vietnamese embroideries are very skillful.
They can use up to 20 kinds of colour threads for an embroidery. There are many pottery kilns in the country, whose date can be traced back hundreds of years ago. In northern Vietnam the two most famous pottery villages are Bat Trang village in Gia Lam district in Ha Noi's eastern suburbans and Tho Ha village in Ha Bac province, north of Ha Noi. Pottery products nowadays are very diversified in kinds and in designs. It is said that there are several hundred kinds of pottery products on sale in the domestic market.