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Uzbek boxes: history and secrets of craftsmanship

Готовая резная узбекская шкатулка с узором.

Let us admit it: in everyday life, we rarely think much about keeping the house in order. Yet where should we put jewellery, keys, and small keepsakes that always seem to end up in the wrong place? Uzbek carved boxes provide the answer. These beautiful containers help organise your belongings while decorating the interior. Let […]

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 […]