| Description |
Uzbekistan is well known as a region with rich and ancient traditions of applied arts. Many of them are being endangered in due to globalization and modernization. For this reason, UNESCO Office in Tashkent has initiated a number of projects to safeguard intangible cultural heritage, support the development of traditional crafts, as well as to improve the traditional crafts quality and design. The most evolving one is the Festival of Tradition Textile “Atlas Bayrami” (Celebrating Atlas), which was first time held in 2015 in Margilan, an ancient centre of the silk weaving on the Great Silk Road. Due to its success, the festival from year to year was expanded and became one of the unique initiative in Uzbekistan. Thus, the last Festival (third edition) had a wider geographical range: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan joined the festival thus expanding the borders to Central Asia. |
