From Khiva to Bukhara, Uzbekistan’s carpet artistry keeps history and tradition alive

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From Khiva to Bukhara, Uzbekistan’s carpet artistry keeps history and tradition alive  Uzbekistan’s artisans keep Silk Road traditions alive, weaving wool and silk into exquisite carpets that contain history, colour, and heart.  In partnership with Agency of Information and Mass Communications of Uzbekistan  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/11/04/from-khiva-to-bukhara-uzbekistans-carpet-artistry-keeps-history-and-tradition-alive  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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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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