A bright red dragonfly alights atop a band of golden silk on a field of tiny red and gold flowers.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade pillow cover.
Size: 44 cm x 44 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG
Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG created the lovely embroidered items that you see on this website. Polio afflicted Trang's legs when she was five years old. Because of her inability to walk independently, Trang was unable to attend high school and unable as well to labor alongside her five sisters and brother on her family's little farm. So, at the age of eighteen, Trang traveled alone to the tourist town of Hoi An where, for the next eight years, she slept on the floor of various shops and in a homeless shelter while she learned the skills of embroidery and struggled to support herself.
Trang now lives in Da Nang, where she works with the Steady Footsteps organization in order to help other disabled people like herself. In her spare time, she continues to create lovely embroidered pieces such as you see here. Trang is delighted to finally be financially independent and able to help her family as well as assisting others in need.
A bright red dragonfly alights atop a band of golden silk on a field of tiny red and gold flowers.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade pillow cover.
Size: 44 cm x 44 cm.
A delicate spider web adorns a branch of blossoms on a blue silk brocade pillow cover.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade pillow cover.
Size: 44 cm x 44 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
A hand-embroidered pink dragonfly emerges from a blue silk brocade pillow cover.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade pillow cover.
Size: 44 cm x 44 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
A bee and a flower embroidered on a dragon-patterned red silk brocade pillow. cover
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade pillow cover.
Size: 44 cm x 44 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
Traditional Vietnamese characters hand-embroidered on dragon-patterned red silk brocade pillow cover.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade pillow cover.
Size: 44 cm x 44 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
Pink butterflies grace this silk brocade shoulder bag.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade shoulder bag.
Size: 30 cm x 36 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
Pink and gold dragonflies on magenta silk brocade.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade shoulder bag.
Size: 30 cm x 36 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
Golden dragonflies flutter across a black silk shoulder bag.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade shoulder bag.
Size: 30 cm x 36 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
Two embroidered black geckos cavort on a blue silk brocade shoulder bag.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade shoulder bag.
Size: 30 cm x 36 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
An embroidered red dragonfly alights on golden bamboo on this silk brocade pillow cover.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade pillow cover.
Size: 44 cm x 44 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)
An embroidered bee alights on a scarlet hibiscus blossom on this silk brocade pillow cover.
Artist: Nguyen Thi Thuy TRANG.
Medium: Embroidery on silk brocade pillow cover.
Size: 44 cm x 44 cm.
Price: $25 USD ($7 USD shipping)