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The Muong people of Hoa Binh province — one of Vietnam's oldest highland groups, often described as the closest cultural relatives of the Kinh Vietnamese — maintain a cotton brocade tradition distinct from both Black Tai (CRAFT-0291) and Tay (CRAFT-0299) weaving. Muong brocade uses a specific technique called can tay (hand-counting) — the weaver counts every individual warp thread by hand to create the supplementary weft pattern without any pattern cards or templates. The Muong geometric vocabulary — featuring deer, fish, birds, and the characteristic 'mother's teeth' (rang me) diamond border — is encoded in the weaver's hands as a counting sequence that she has memorized since childhood. A Muong master weaver can execute the rang me border while simultaneously conversing, nursing a child, or performing another task — the pattern is encoded at reflex level.
Risk level: Endangered · Not inscribed
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