Since the first national flag unfurled in Ba Dinh Square on September 2, 1945, the product of Nguyen Van Phuc’s family business in Hanoi’s Thuong Tin district, have featured at important events all over the country.
The biggest flag, covering an area of 54sq.m, is hung from the top of Lung Cu (Ha Giang) and represents Vietnam’s 54 ethnic minority groups.
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| Phuc’s small house is full of cloth and tools |
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| He carefully stretches the cloth before cutting. Flag sizes usually range up to 10m |
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| Cutting cloth |
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| Using pins to afix the gold star before sewing |
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| With electric industrial sewing machines powered, his work has become much quicker and less tedious |
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| His family also sews the Party flag, flags for martyrs, foreign country flags, banners and slogans, and even restores historical flags |
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| Nguyen Van Tam, a disadvantaged person from the same village, is employed by Phuc’s family at VND50,000 per day |
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| Drying the flag |
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| The family house’s colourful cloth is embedded in the memories of its children |
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| Hang Bong Street is one of the locations where Phuc’s family’s products are sold |
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| Bright flags flying at the fore of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum |
