AI generatedMargilan
Uzbekistan · Fergana Region · 487 m
Short description of Margilan
Margilan has woven silk for a thousand years and still does it by hand, which is the entire reason to come the ten kilometres from Fergana. At the Yodgorlik factory the whole sequence runs in one yard, from the boiling of the cocoons through the tying and dyeing of the warp to the loom, and the ikat patterns called atlas and adras come off it blurred at every edge because that is what the technique does. UNESCO put the town's crafts centre on its safeguarding register in 2017. The Kumtepa bazaar trades on Thursdays and Sundays.
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Best time to visit: April – May or September – October
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- Yodgorlik silk factory and its hand looms
- Kumtepa bazaar (every Thursday and Sunday)
- Said Ahmad Khoja madrasah and its workshops
- Ikat dyeing of atlas and adras
- Khonakhan mosque and its two minarets
- Toron mosque and the crafts development centre
- Mulberry groves that feed the silkworms
- Gold embroidery and wood carving stalls
- Old town lanes of the weavers