Vintage Vietnam
On one of my last days in Saigon last year, I spent some time in a little independent art space called Lac Hong Gallery. I had already purchased some original etchings at another gallery, but here I found a little box containing some vintage greeting cards.
Three of the five cards I bought are designs embroidered in silk thread; the other two are printed on silk. Faintly embossed on the back of them are the words: Xunhasaba, Hanoi Vietnam, Handmade.
Although the plain cream cards are yellow and foxed with age, they are such a quaint souvenir of a bygone era. They deserve to be framed, rather than written in. I wonder if someone in a hundred years’ time will think the same about a vintage collection of Hallmark cards?
