About 80km from Quy Nhon, Ha Ri is home to the largest concentration of Ba Na ethnic people in Binh Dinh, so it still retains the typical cultural features of their nation, especially brocade weaving. When off work or in leisure time, women work hard at the loom to weave the most beautiful brocade fabrics for themselves and their families.

BaNa girls by the loom

Brocade weaving in Bana villages before, when they still had to make their own yarn, around March and April, people went to the fields to plant cotton, in August and September, cotton was harvested. Cotton balls are dried and then pulled out and spun into fibers. As for the hemp weave, scrape the outer shell with a razor, flatten it, dry it, then use your hands to shred it, twist two or three strands and then soak them in water to wash the rice for the fibers to bind... Dye is the tuber, the bark is taken from the forest, cooked and squeezed to get water. The yarn is soaked in medicine, picked out overnight, dried, then turned into a roll of different colors. That is the raw material, and the loom is just a wooden frame, the spinning set is for spinning.

To weave a blanket or a cloth enough to sew a woman's dress, if free, it takes a month to do it all the time, and if it's net, it takes about four to five days.

Regarding brocade weaving, the technique of the Bana people is quite similar to that of some other ethnic groups such as Cham and H're. But in terms of patterns and decorative motifs, there are many different features. Brocade of the Bana K'rim people in Vinh Thanh uses many geometric patterns with lines, curves, and triangles. Textures are usually tiny patterns that overlap to form a complex band around a main ornament, an eight-pointed star woven on a white background. The Bana people choose black as the main color in brocade costumes combined with red, white and a little yellow and green to create a strong impression thanks to the contrast.

Currently, in each mountainous village in Vinh Thanh, there are about fifteen to twenty looms and about the same number of weavers, mainly those over forty years old. Today, in addition to products for the family, BaNa girls in Ha Ri also weave handicraft products such as bags, wallets, scarves, tablecloths...