An embroidery picture named Uoc nguyen ngan nam Thang Long for the 1000th birthday of Hanoi will set a record for being the largest embroidery picture ever produced in Vietnam.

The hand-embroidered picture is 4m-long, 3m-wide and 167.5kg weight. Especially this numbers multiplied together will make 2010, the year of the 1000th birthday of Thang Long - Hanoi.

The picture has made from October, 2006 by nine skilled artisans of XQ Embroidery Workshop in Dalat City, Lam Dong Province. The center image of work is pure lotuses which represent Vietnamese cultural spirit. They are mixed with ancient quarters and pagodas. In the sunrise, shape of cranes look like manifestation of ancestor’s soul with sound of gongs. The winding Red River represents Thang Long – Hanoi and Vietnamese nation’s aspiration.

After the picture is being finished in September, 2010, a picture procession is going to be organized from Dalat City to Nha Trang, Danang, Hue, Vinh, Ninh Binh and stop in Hanoi. The stretch of road for the procession totalled 1000km.
 
(Source: TITC)