According to the loyal documentary. In the period about XII-XIV century, there are a numbers of families in Bo Bat pottery village (in Ninh Binh district now). They were Bùi, Phùng, Trân and Vu families coming there to work pottery, selling it to people in city even doing business with foreigners. At First, it was called Bach Ho Group and When there are the thousands of pottery-kiln, it was called Bát Tràng- the age of name is as approximately old as the age of Group. Who was the Bát Tràng pottery ancestor? As a popular documentary he is Hua Vinh Kieu who gained a pupil scholar certificate under the reign of Ly. On the occasion of being sent to the Tong north country as King’s envoy, he learnt work and taught to people when he came back. He was regarded as the founder. But according to the "Dao Tuong Kinh Su Bi Ky" epitaph, Trân Hoe Doctor in Tu Chi built it. Quy duke, Nguyên Thanh Châu, in 1737. He was the founder. On the other theories, Luu Phuong was said to be the founder...

When it was seen on the Dai Viêt administrative map, Bát Tràng products were got the favor of people from the top citizen class in Thang Long to the poor peasant in country. Bát Tràng family use items gone far abroad. From the early XV century, Chinese was the place with the tradition pottery work for the thousands of years and well known in the world but there were ever the tens of Bát Tràng pottery sets in the tribute festival. Since then in every reign, in decline or prospect situations, Bát Tràng pottery village still assured the worth of goods, kept position and passed every trial. It is proud of working, living, old origin in Bát Tràng. In the Gia Lâm proverb, there is a word: " living to be man in Bát Tràng, dying to be tutelary spirit" that means it is very happy to be a man in Bát Tràng because of the stable pottery work, big fortune. In Kieu Ki village, there was a work of making Indian ink; material was the skin of buffalo. They had to kill buffalo and worship tutelary spirit so this tutelary was well off. Bát Tràng likes a symbol of Viet Nam traditional trade village.

It is a famous trade village, recently, there are over 6,000 people in 1,500 families with the total 153 Ha, so the average area for each is 0.15 Ha (150 m2). So houses are built one by the other and more special that is the thousands of pottery kiln, more than one a family. The rate of pottery kiln in Bát Tràng is the first rank at the other same villages in the world. Most men in Bát Tràng follow the traditional work (nine of ten) except for person leaving home. After over an innovation decade, many traditional trade villages are recovered, the innovation and increase of Bát Tràng pottery village are increasing unbelievably.

On the basic of tradition pottery technique, Bát Tràng pottery workers have taken - abused-propagated greatly the progress of science technology into every stage in making pottery. It has made many types of top class pottery, that is useful and beautiful and it upgrades the sense of pottery art. The Bát Tràng list of pottery getting high quality is longer more and more by day like bowl, dish, pot, cup, wine pot, a big flower-vase, leg lamp, lime-pot, big-bellied jar... It made by all sort of glazes as ancient pearl blaze, crackle glaze, dark glaze, indigo-blue flower glaze, Grey flower glaze, melt glaze... Thank to that the benefit of people in pottery village is getting higher.