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Inside Uzbekistan’s carpet cities where history and craftsmanship are woven together

Uzbekistan’s artisans preserve centuries-old Silk Road traditions, weaving wool and silk into carpets that reflect history, culture and craftsmanship.

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00:00I love the people of Uzbekistan, and I love the people of Uzbekistan.
00:17Along the ancient roads that once carried silken stories between East and West,
00:22the cities of Uzbekistan learned to weave their memory into color.
00:26Nowadays, hands still move, as they did centuries ago, knot by knot, pattern by pattern,
00:33shaping wool and silk into a quiet language of belonging.
00:38Its thread recalls a caravan song, its motive – a trace of empire and dream.
00:45Klassический узбекский ковер – это наследие полукочевой степной культуры.
00:51Это шерстяной ковер с узорами, которые несут в себе миропонимание степника.
00:57Поэтому там так много мотивов с рогами, с когтями.
01:02Это все связано с идеологией степного мира.
01:05Крест, как солярный символ.
01:07Это символ бога Тенгри, которым поклонялись степные народы.
01:12In Hiva, color is not mixed from tubes.
01:15It grows from the soil itself.
01:18БОДАЛЬНЫЙМА
01:29Every year, Hiva celebrates the International Carpet Festival,
01:52where master weavers from across Uzbekistan and other countries
01:56cover their works shimmering, like stories returned in colour.
02:00In Hiva, weaving is part of daily life, steady, patient and deeply rooted.
02:07The carpet here reflects the land itself, the soft tones of sand and sky,
02:12the precision of tradition and the quiet pride of those who keep it alive.
02:18During Gillam-Lar-Dzilose, Hiva opens its doors to the world,
02:24showing that this ancient craft still has something new to say.
02:30In Samarkand, silk grows like memory, a bridge between empire and artistry.
02:36With the natural light, you can see the colours better.
02:40And every 15 minutes, you have to make a break, because it's exactly like you're sitting in a computer.
02:46Because if you don't make breaks, you do mistakes, and the carpet takes longer to make.
02:51But if you do more breaks, then the carpet takes less time.
02:56This is not only something that we make with our minds.
03:00Heart is more involved in this, because you have to love it.
03:04In every design, echoes of Persia and the steppe meet a dialogue of colour that has never ceased.
03:12The time it takes to create a carpet depends on the size and the number of knots per square centimeter.
03:19But music for the Ice workshop manager in Samarkand describes that another important part of creating
03:25carpets is employee satisfaction. Their mood is crafted into the final product.
03:33In Bukhara, threads of tradition meet the colours of today.
03:37Ancient patterns reborn in the hands of a new generation.
03:41When we say a Bukhara carpet, you should always imagine a carpet like this,
03:47which is a red colour, geometrical pattern made of real silk.
03:52When they've designed this carpet, in Bukhara we had more Zoroastrian people living.
03:59So they used to pray for fire and sun.
04:02This carpet is an old, again, tribal, traditional Zoroastrian pattern, but with new modern colours.
04:12For centuries, Bukhara's carpets have carried the spirit of the Silk Road,
04:17woven with the colours of the desert, the sky and the hands of its people.
04:21In Bukhara, carpet seems to flow like water.
04:25Hands move slowly, deliberately, coaxing wool and silk into rivers of colour.
04:32These elongated forms, alive with pattern, are the echoes of caravans that once rested in these walls.
04:40To weave a carpet is to measure time with patience, to weave beauty from repetition,
04:46to believe that the hands can remember what words forget.
04:50The next step following is the Solaran people's living in the language of the 365 of the Fusion,
04:52including the police and the 2004 of the S audience.
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