16 × 11 cm
ETHICALLY HANDMADE IN VIETNAM
All Lua pieces are handmade by women working in clean, safe workshops or at home so they can work according to their families’ needs. Poverty is widespread and working with Lua enables them to combine any farming obligations with a valuable additional source of income.
It takes up to 4 days to make a purse from start to finish. The fabric and materials needed are cut in Lua's main workshop in Hanoi and transported to the applique village workshop. The designs are drawn onto tracing paper and brushed with a special solution to imprint onto the fabric. Each small individual fabric piece is carefully cut out and glued onto the base fabric. Our purses often use 4 or 5 different types of fabric and it is then up to a skilled machinist to embroider each piece into place. The pieces are then returned to Hanoi for stitching and assembling into the final purse.
