When I was in Hanoi, I met a gallery owner who introduced me to a brilliant travel initiative called the Reading Glass Project. Mark Rapoport, who co-owns 54 Traditions gallery in Hanoi (a spot that one of our members directed me to), specializes in the crafts of Vietnam’s ethnic minorities. (Read Local Legend Hanoi: Mark Rapoport.) Over the years, as he traveled into the hills of northern Vietnam looking for textiles and jewelry and handcrafts, he found that many of the older weavers could no l...