Uzbekistan Art & Handicrafts

		Uzbekistan Art & Handicrafts:
		The Revival of Ancient Uzbekistan Crafts
		The Blue Ceramics of Uzbekistan
		The Uzbekistan Musical Instruments
		Uzbek Carpets
		Uzbek Suzane
		Tubeteika suits everybody
		Uzbek National Dress
		Gold Embroidery in Uzbekistan
		Cloudlike Patterns of Uzbek Textiles
		Wood Carving in Uzbekistan
		A Silver Song of Metal
		Magic of Oriental Decorative Patterns
		Uzbek Ganch
		Souvenirs from Uzbekistan
		Jewelry of Uzbekistan

    The history of Uzbek arts and handicrafts can be compared to the flow of the Central Asian rivers Syr Darya and Amu Darya. The upper reaches of these rivers lie high in the mountains, in the land of glaciers and fogs. At the mountain foot the streams meet to form rapid rivers, which rush to the plains where they finally slow down irrigating fields and feeding reservoirs. Similarly, the history of Uzbek arts and crafts began centuries ago, undergoing both rapid and slow periods of development. But the chain of those development stages has never broken - the artistic tradition has always been maintained.

    For centuries caravans used to carry goods between the West and the East along the Great Silk Road which ran through the territory of the present-day Uzbekistan. Craftsmen's articles would make a substantial part of these goods. In the 7th century in his "Records of the travel to the Western regions" the Buddhist monk Xuan Zang wrote that "Samarkand craftsmen were much more skillful than the craftsmen from the other countries".