NHUNG CERAMIC COMPANY - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

900 years before, together with Tho Ha and Bat Trang, Phu Lang was one of the three Centers having well-known folk pottery ovens, specialized in the production of different kinds of pottery with yellow enamel. The samples of the yellow enamel like swamp-eels skin together with its change colors: yellowish, dark yellow, green yellow, red yellow, brown yellow (even azure, greenish, dark blue colors is now losing to hand down) , attached with, the carved articles, glazed terra-cotta jars used every day. Since long time, the Tho Has pottery ovens stopped their fire. The Bat Trangs pottery has become crossbred. Only the Phu Langs pottery keeps the truthful aspect, agreeable to the small income: To take pains to the collection, the bag will be full. Many artists of the fame such as Trong Doan,  

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Bao Toan, Anh Vu have exploited the techniques of Phu Lang for the creation of the modern pottery and sculpture. However, it is not only a pottery oven but also a product of folk culture: land-man-and life. Born in the place naturally decorated by sentimental mountain, water and a trade village full of inspirations of plastic arts, Vu Huu Nhung (the leader of Nhung ceramic company) is one of the few people in Phu Lang who would like to become an artist from a pottery worker. Without developing extremely odd appearances as the industrial painters have usually done, he tries to seek showing the different substances on the pottery of Phu Lang, for example: the substances of wood, brick, stone, cloth, rattan, bamboo and even the feelings on plant and herb, sometimes there are stature, sometime, surfaces in the composition. In reality, between the description of nature and stature, in which the pottery articles have certain relations. Nowadays, Nhung ceramic Co., ltd is still the biggest company in Phulang village with nearly 200 employees. We are doing some products for export as: interior, outdoor ceramic, ceramic painting, construction ceramic, cift ceramic. Familiar customers of Nhungs ceramic are come from Japan, USA, Italia etc and we always welcome new familiar friend. Our products are almost by hand made and burning with tradition teleology. To strengthen produce capacity and improve ability to meet the customer need, we are making plan for automation some production process and building some gas stove. We sure that with our change, we will more and more satisfy all customers without effect the beauty of traditional products.