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Manage No DI00000419 Country Republic of Korea Author Shukhrat Ganiev, Mayor of Ferghana Region, Chairman of Organizing Committee of the Atlas Bayrami Textile Festival Saida Azimova Senior Expert, National Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan for UNESCO Published Year 2020 Language English Copyright 
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| Description | Ikat making in Uzbekistan is an ancient type of applied art. The history of Ikat atlas and adras making technologies in the territory of Uzbekistan dates to the late antique period. Historically, Margilan, as the heart of the Fergana Valley, was the birthplace of advanced silk craftsmanship of Central Asia and the center for making atlas and adras—vivid and fine traditional fabrics. | ||
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Ikat Making
by National Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan for UNESCO
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Traditional Ikat Making in Uzbekistan
Fabric making art has been known in the territory of Uzbekistan since ancient times. Initially fabrics were weaved only from cotton. But in the first and second centuries bce, due to trading along the Great Silk Road, our ancestors learned the secrets of weaving silk fabrics. This film includes some of the thirty-two stages involved with making abr fabrics. Rasuljon Mirzaahmedov is the representative of the ninth generation of abr makers. He revived various secrets of abr making as the result of his research on Uzbek fabrics being kept not only in the museums of Uzbekistan but also in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg and in other cities of Europe. As follow up his studies he established ikat weaving workshops in many regions of Uzbekistan as well as in neighboring countries.
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Uzbekistan 2017