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Local crafts and arts

by Iniji

*Spring and Autumn Art-Bazars in "Zarqaynar"-Centre of national arts-located close to old city bazaar Chorsu-address:Tashkent,Zarquanar street,1. Call to know details : 150 40 12 ,hours:10am -8pm,weekly ,exepting Sunday.*"Tsum" department store-center of city near by navoi Opera theatre.*Every second Suday -Art and Craft bazar show ,artpeople sell own artworks -in Tashkent Intercontinental hotel /phone 1207000/-Exhibition start from 11:00 till 04:00 pm,-Jewelry,Miniatures, Leather and Wooden masterpieces, handmade Bags, Susanes,Silk carpets, Toys, Batik, Ceramics etc. Transportation-taxi or Bodomzor metro station.*Hotel's souvenir boutiques,art galleries,Old city center bazaar.

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Everywhere: Exquisite embroidery

by TheWanderingCamel

Suzane is the name given nowadays to all the wonderful embroideries you will find in Uzbekistan. For those interested -a suzane is a large wall hanging, a nimsuzane is a small wall hanging, a tuskiz hangs in a yurt and a ruijo is spread on the bridal bed. The list of names goes on - but suzane will do. Whether you buy a full suzane or just a single cushion cover, you are buying a piece of a wonderful tradition.Patterns and styles vary from place to place. In Bukhara the background is nearly always cream (though these days some are tea-dipped to give a attractive muted tone to the colours - that is quite acceptable) and floral patterns feature strongly, often with recognisable flower motifs. Tashkent suzanis tend to have brightly coloured backgrounds and fairly small stylized floral motifs whilst Fergana Valley work features large bold motifs - usually black and red on a cream...

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Everywhere: Silk from the Silk Road

by TheWanderingCamel

Uzbek silks in wonderful Ikat hand weaves are absolutely beautiful. Expensive too - this is a highly sophisticated weaving process. For those adventurous enough to wear them, the coats and dresses made from this silk make a real impact. For the more conservative, lovely scarves make an more wearable, and much cheaper, alternative.I'm still dreaming of a glorious piece of silk I saw in Samarkand, about one and a half metres square with a fabulous Ikat pattern - first price $500 - even 5th price would have been beyond my budget, but what a piece! This has become a bit of a mantra - what you pay is up to you -a few dollars for a machine-made scarf or hundreds for something like my gorgeous square.$25 bought me a gorgeous stole woven in Khorezm style from best quality silk, a length of silk and cotton mix adras in a very sophisticated ikat pattern cost $8 a metre, machine-made pure silk...

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Everwhere: A hat for every occasion

by TheWanderingCamel

If there is one thing to buy that most typifies Uzbek culture, it must be a hat. Whether you choose a simple black and white doppi or an elaborately embroidered and beaded young girl's cap, a woolly sheepskin telpek or a Turkoman fantasy like the silver one here with the pheasant feathers, pay a dollar or two in a market or twenty or more for something beautiful and unique, it is the hats they wear that mark the identity and status of Central Asian men and women in the most unmistakeable way. When I travel, I buy my bookclub friends a gift -the game is to spend no more than $1 each. In Shakrisabz I found the hats that were $3 in Bukhara (too expensive for me, but a fair price our guide said) for $1. The girl selling them was delighted when I bought 10 and my friends were delighted with their hats. Win win.

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Dealers everywhere: Magic carpets

by TheWanderingCamel

Although you will see any number of carpets for sale in Uzbekistan, be aware that most come from Turkmenistan. Not that this is a reason not to buy, trade in carpets across the whole region is as old as carpet-making, pre-dating the borders of modern politics by centuries. If you want to be sure the carpet you buy is truly an Uzbek one, visit the UNESCO-sponsored silk carpet workshops in Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva or buy from the Yodgorlik silk factory in Fergana where you can see the carpets being made. At the workshop in Khiva you can see the copper pots of dye bubbling away as well as the women working at the looms. Traditional knotted rugs and carpets; kilims, sumacs and other flatweaves and items such as camel bags are all available. Small rugs will fold neatly inro a suitcase, larger pieces may need to be shipped. Laws are strict about exporting anything with real age or...

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Bazaars everywhere: Something for everyone

by TheWanderingCamel

If Bukhara's domes and Samarkand's madrassas cater mostly for tourists, Uzbekistan's wonderful bazaars make no such concessions. These are the places that the local people shop in every day for their food, their household needs and most of their clothes. The huge covered market halls, open stalls in the plazas and the streets all around buzz with activity and life. These are the places to come for the sounds, the smells and the tastes of daily life. Spices, dried fruit and nuts, fabulous fresh fruit and bread are all great buys here, some for immediate consumption, some to take home with you.

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Registan medressah courtyards: Shopping in Samarkand

by TheWanderingCamel

The austere student cells of Samarkand's old madrassas are mostly now crowded with a riot of colour as they find a new purpose as the small shops selling the gorgeous handicrafts of the country. The beautiful tilework on the arches of the courtyards combine with the variety and vibrancy of the goods for sale both inside and outside the shops to form a wonderful tapestry of colour around the serene space of the the courts themselves with their stone-flagged paving, trees and grapevines. Western-style shopping malls with their bright lights and piped music don't have a fraction of the atmosphere and charm of these places.

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Bukhara's trading domes: Not your average department store

by TheWanderingCamel

Once there were five, now there's just three. The famous trading domes of Bukhara covered the junctions of the roads that led through the busy mercantile section of the city. Each was dedicated to a particular trade, the ones that remain are the Jeweller's bazaar, the Cap-maker's and the Money-changer's. None of them is exclusively devoted to any one thing these days, rather most of the little shops inside and the stalls that are set up all around sell the same mixture of suzanes and silk scarves, bags and jewellery, carpets and hats that make up the stock of decorative items that make Uzbekistan a shopper's delight. There's something for everyone under the domes. From a carpet big enough to cover a whole room to a tiny little shoulder bag made from a scrap of an old kilim, enough jewellery to fill Aladdin's cave, silk scarves and suzanes, spices and bronze jugs, ceramics and tea - the...

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Don’t miss her magic music - Yulduz Usmonova

by Trekki

… as I obviously did when I was travelling through Uzbekistan.But… this is again one of the miracles of VT :-) . Mira was reading what I wrote about Samarkand and dropped me a comment about an Uzbek singer, she liked very much. I replied that I didn’t heard that much Uzbek music while I was there, and voila – she sent me a link to Yulduz music on Youtobe.So, for all of you who like local music, make sure you listen into her Yulduz Usmonova at Youtube clips.Interesting also to read about her in Wikipedia :-) She was born in Marghilan, and her parents worked in the silk factory (the one I also visited).

Various: Traditional crafts

by toonsarah

Uzbekistan is a great destination for anyone who loves to shop, especially for traditional crafts. Prices are very reasonable (especially after the bargaining that is expected in most though not all places) and although the quality is mixed there are plenty of good items to be found. Perhaps foremost among these are the embroideries or suzanni. This word is most properly applied to the larger wall-hangings but is now used generically to refer to any piece of embroidery, including the two cushion covers we bought. But if you don’t want embroidery there are plenty of other lovely things to tempt you, including silk carpets (if you buy one of these, make sure you get a certificate to show that it isn’t an antique); silk scarves in vibrant colours; wood carvings and the classic Uzbek wooden bread stamps; pottery and ceramics; paintings of all styles and in various media; and a range of...

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