Most suppliers show you a factory floor. We will show you that too – but the story starts earlier, in the communes and workshops where the skill actually lives. When you buy handmade, you are buying specific pairs of hands, and you should know whose.
Handcraft breaks when it is organised as a loose chain of small workshops – nobody owns the quality, nobody owns the date, and the buyer carries all the risk. We run it the other way round.
Craftwork and specialist components come from the network. Everything after that – final assembly, finishing, inspection, labelling, packing, documents and export – happens in our own facility in Hanoi, under our name and our contract.
Weaving, knotting, crochet, batik and hand-quilting produced at home across nine northern communes – anchored in Mai Châu and Mù Cang Chải – to our pattern, gauge and colour card.
Dedicated teams of makers with disabilities working on the components their training and their hands suit best, at commercial piece rates.
Long-standing crochet, silk and macramé workshops supplying trained artisans and materials we do not produce ourselves.
Mulberry and lotus silk, Hmong handwoven hemp, indigo and plant dyes, sourced direct from the villages that make them.
Development, sampling, final production, AQL inspection, labelling, packing, export documentation – one address, one accountable company.
Founded in 2015 as a quilting workshop and grown into the production house for four crafts. This is where a buyer’s order becomes a physical thing with a delivery date attached.
What happens here – product development and pattern-making, sampling, dyeing supervision and shade-lot recording, final assembly and finishing, AQL 2.5 inspection, private-label application, carton packing, export documentation.
Hanoi, Vietnam
2025
Quilting, batik, finishing, assembly across all four lines
18,000 pcs/month
50 pcs/ style
EXW Hanoi , FOB Hai Phong
Handcraft breaks when it is organised as a loose chain of small workshops – nobody owns the quality, nobody owns the date, and the buyer carries all the risk. We run it the other way round.
Craftwork and specialist components come from the network. Everything after that – final assembly, finishing, inspection, labelling, packing, documents and export – happens in our own facility in Hanoi, under our name and our contract.
Six to twelve weeks of paid training in a craft before any production work is assigned.
Benches, lighting, tooling and hours adjusted to the maker, not the other way around.
Identical rate card to every other artisan in the network. Nobody is paid less for the same work.
Buyers running provenance or impact claims can name the workshop and the craft on their tags – with consent.
In most of rural Vietnam the choice has been to leave – for an industrial park in Bắc Ninh or a factory dormitory in the south. Craft income changes that arithmetic. An artisan working from home earns a stable monthly wage without leaving her children, her land or the village that taught her the skill.
A valley of White Thai weaving villages, where brocade is woven on wooden frame looms beneath stilt houses – a skill mothers still teach daughters before they leave school.
What comes from here – handwoven brocade panels and trim, cotton and silk handloom cloth, and the geometric motifs that give our patchwork and cushion lines their signature. Thirty-plus households work with us here, several since our first year.
Terraced mountains and Hmong villages, where hemp is still grown, retted and woven by hand, drawn with hot beeswax and dipped in living indigo until it turns the blue-black of dusk.
What comes from here – hemp cloth and cord, hand-drawn beeswax batik, and natural indigo dyeing. This is the source of the material and the colour that make our quilt and macramé lines impossible to reproduce offshore.
Year-round order flow rather than seasonal spikes, so households can plan. Piece rates agreed with group leaders and reviewed twice a year. Materials and tools supplied by us, never deducted from pay.
No subcontracting to unverified households. No child labour, ever — a rule we audit rather than assume, because home-based production is exactly where that risk lives.
Master artisans are paid to teach. Younger makers enter on training rates and graduate to full piece rates – which is how a craft survives another generation instead of ending with its last practitioner.
Four crafts is a wide range for one manufacturer, and we are honest about how we cover it. For crochet, silk and macramé we work with three established Vietnamese workshops – Linh Crochet, Handy Silk and Ngát Macramé — who supply trained artisans, componentry and materials. We manage the specification, the schedule and the final quality — and the finished goods leave from our floor.
Vietnamese fabric suppliers we buy from regularly. Every roll is checked against our swatch card before it reaches a cutting table, and each lot is recorded so reorders match.
| Year one | Location | Distributor |
|---|---|---|
| Phú Nhuận fabric | Bình Dương | 2–4 hours |
| Kiến Hồ fabric | TBC | ½ – 1 day |
| Lamoc fabric | TBC | Per event |
| Phú Thuận Hưng Co., Ltd. | TBC | Recurring |
You contract with Tomato Handmade. We carry the network, the compliance and the delivery date.
Village of origin, craft and maker — supplied as copy and images for your tags and product pages.
Artisan hours and communities per order, formatted for ESG and impact reporting.
Buyers visiting Vietnam are welcome at the facility and in the villages. Two days from Hanoi, four crafts, no showroom theatre.
