Art Design on Vietnamese Conical Hat (Non La)
1. Non La - a cultural symbol of Vietnam :
– Non La has been around for a long time, about 2500-3000 BC, a symbol of the Non La was carved on Vietnam’s national treasures such as Ngoc Lu bronze drum, Dong Son bronze drum...
– Over time, Non La became associated with the life of Vietnamese people and crept into folk songs, poems, and words. The image of the charming Vietnamese girls in Ao Dai and Non-La have become a typical beauty, including in poetry and daily life.
– Today, Non La is no longer an item used only to cover rain and sun but it has become a symbol of national culture. Non La is not only a symbol of the tenderness and simplicity of Vietnamese women but also the soul and quintessence of the beauty of a thousand years of civilization.
2. Creative with Vietnamese Conical Hat:
– Inheriting, creating, innovating but preserving the traditional cultural beauties is what B/S Art Studio is doing with Vietnamese Conical Hat.
– By painting the delicate patterns on the pure white leaves of the Conical Hats, B/S Art Studio wants the simple hats to become a colorful artwork, a decorative product with sentimental value.
– B/S Art Studio have three main themes to create on Non La: natural motifs, Royal motifs and Dong Ho art style. These are patterns imbue with the Vietnamese culture.
– Non La with natural motifs: Natural motifs often vary in colors, lines as well as flowers.
- Non La with Royal motifs is drawn with winding lines on the classic color backgrounds such as gold, fawn, red,… This collection is inspired by the architectural designs of Hue Royal, which absorbed and inherited traditional architecture from the Ly, Tran, Le and Nguyen dynasties. The collection clearly shows the life and spirituality of Vietnamese.
- Non La with Dong Ho style:
Dong ho is a traditional Vietnam folk art. But, the modern society today has allowed Vietnamese people to have more opportunities to access various forms of art around the world, Dong Ho art becomes ignored and unfavorite.
With the love for Vietnamese culture, art, and desire to preserve its traditional value, B/S Art Studio has combined our own characteristics of Dong Ho art with a modern art style known as Doodle Art, creating a new style of Đông Hồ Art.
B/S Art Studio hopes that with all these artworks on Non La will add more uniqueness and distinctiveness for B/S Art Studio's Non La and make an impression for Vietnamese Conical Hat to make the Non La not only a daily item, but also an artwork represents for spirit value and Vietnamese cultural.
