Craft training – SilkGranat

Craft education and training in Uzbekistan: passing traditional skills to new generations

“Ordinary daily life: a minibus, traffic jams, worries, and the neighbour who always starts drilling just when you decide to rest. In the middle of this familiar routine, we sometimes remember that people once lived more simply and made the objects around them by hand. We no longer live that way, but knowing how to […]

Khakim Tadjibaev

Artistic embroidery holds a special place among the folk arts of Uzbekistan. Multicoloured cotton, silk, and gold threads decorated national clothing, including robes and tubeteikas, wedding and prayer rugs, horse blankets, bedspreads, curtains, and tapestries. One distinctive form of Uzbek embroidery is the suzani, made on large pieces of silk, velvet or cotton. The word […]

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Craft education and training in Uzbekistan: passing traditional skills to new generations

Khakim Tadjibaev