Zó Project
Traditional Vietnamese Handmade Paper
Who we are
Zó project is a social business which preserves, supports and expands Vietnamese traditional paper and its making technique in a sustainable and creative way
Join Our Workshops
Our workshops contain calligraphy, bookbinding, jewelry making, and paper fan making, watercolor, lantern folding… Come make your own unique art works with helps from our professional today.
Support Our craftsmen
Our aesthetic and practical products are 100% handmade by crafters at Suối Cỏ Village through traditional and environmentally friendly means, but we need your help for sustainable developments.
plan a day trip with us
Want the most authentic papermaking experience? Join us for our one-day trip to Suối Cỏ Village.
Media and Us
Social enterprise Zo wants to find a new way to keep the tradition alive. Its founder Hong Nhung is creating a demand for the paper by finding modern uses
Matthew Jenkins, The Guardian, 31/3/2015
Do (poonah) paper, used to make the famous folk painting Dong Ho, has been given new vitality thanks to an art project created by a young NGO employee, Tran Hong Nhung.
Vietnam News, 6/2015
Thanks to Zó Project’s initiatives, do paper is now no longer an ancient thing found only in some documents or articles on history and culture; instead, people now can touch and even smell it, and see how amazing it is with their own eyes.
Ngoc An, Thanh Nien News, 6/2015
By producing notebooks, postcards, calendars and several different types of rough, robust paper that artists can use as canvases, Zó project helps support the livelihood of impoverished villagers and preserves a forgotten but invaluable art.
BBC Travel
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