Since 2018, many Ma women in Gia Nghia City, formerly of Dak Nong Province and now under Lam Dong Province, have come together to establish a cooperative group for brocade weaving.

Brocade weaving is a time-honoured craft of the Lu ethnic group, one of Viet Nam’s very few ethnic minorities with population of less than 10,000, in Lai Chau Province.