In the 2010s, as cheaper, fake silk flooded the market and young textile workers moved to the big cities, this local craft started dying out. But one village turned things around, banding together into one cooperative called HanhSilk.
We head to northern Vietnam to learn how Nam Cao village saved its big business of silk.
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