Month: March 2014

Who would have thought ten years ago that tourists would be clamoring to travel to Karakalpakstan? It’s true; these days more and more people are making it a point to include Nukus, the home of the Savitsky museum, into their Central Asian tour. There they can see two extraordinary and different collections; both are the…

The textiles of Uzbekistan are world famous, particularly the embroideries known as Suzani, and the magnificent silk weaves know as Khan-Atlas. Suzani are an important part of Uzbek culture, and they are recognized world wide as some of the finest textiles and examples of folk art. The Uzbek people were originally nomadic, and these embroideries…