Craft guide
ORBISCRAFT & ATELIERS IN HO CHI MINH CITY5 stores · curated ORBIS register
District 1
Vietnamese couture house from designer Cong Tri, offering both ready-to-wear pieces and a made-to-order atelier service. The label presents seasonal runway collections, including its current Spring-Summer 2026 line.
Best for Cong Tri ready-to-wear and made-to-order fashion
District 1 / Online
Ladan is a maker in Ho Chi Minh City known for handmade handbags using traditional Vietnamese Dan Lat weaving method, bridging generations with candy-coloured pocketbooks, clutches and totes.
Best for Handmade handbags using traditional Vietnamese Dan Lat weaving method
71B Dong Khoi, District 1 / Online
Ninh Khương is a maker in Ho Chi Minh City known for hand-embroidered baby clothes and home linens by the 'King of Embroidery' — classic Vietnamese needlework.
Best for Hand-embroidered baby clothes, home linens and Vietnamese needlework
District 1
Deaf-staffed teahouse and adjoining craft shop in Hoi An's Old Town, part of the Reaching Out Vietnam social enterprise founded in 2000; sells Hue-style handcrafted tableware, ceramics and homewares made by deaf and disabled artisans.
Best for Handmade crafts made by silent artisans
Reaching Out Teahouse is run as part of Reaching Out Vietnam, a social enterprise founded in 2000 in Hoi An to provide employment for local deaf and disabled residents under fair-trade principles - fair wages and safe working conditions for artisans and staff. All servers at the teahouse are speech- and hearing-impaired; communication with customers runs through gentle hand gestures, circle-marked menus, and small wooden signaling blocks rather than spoken orders. The teahouse itself occupies a restored old house in central Hoi An and serves tea, coffee, fruit juices and biscuits. Behind and alongside it, Reaching Out operates a retail and workshop space selling tableware handcrafted in the style of Hue's former imperial court, along with ceramics, homewares and jewelry made by the same artisan community. The enterprise has been covered by regional press as a model for disability employment tied to Vietnam's tourism economy.
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City atelier founded 2011 by artist-designer Thuy Nguyen, who trained at Hanoi's Vietnam University of Fine Art and holds a PhD from Kyiv's fine-art academy; reworks brocade and silk techniques into contemporary fashion.
Best for Art-led fashion from this independent Vietnamese designer
Thuy Design House was founded in 2011 by Thuy Nguyen, a Vietnamese artist and fashion designer educated at the Vietnam University of Fine Art in Hanoi, who went on to earn a doctorate in fine art from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine. The label's guiding idea is translating traditional Vietnamese textile handicraft - brocade weaving and silk work among them - into contemporary garment design, rather than treating those techniques as purely decorative or archival.
Nguyen's work extends beyond the clothing line itself. She produced and directed the film "The Tailor," which uses the ao dai, Vietnam's traditional dress, as a lens for exploring Vietnamese cultural identity and its collision with modern life. She also founded The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, a space dedicated to contemporary Vietnamese art, which operates alongside her fashion practice rather than as a side project. Thuy Design House's collections have been shown at Vietnam International Fashion Week and worn by figures in Vietnamese entertainment and media, part of a broader push - shared with other Vietnamese designers of her generation - to position Vietnamese craft techniques within international, rather than purely folkloric or tourist-facing, fashion contexts.
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