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Margilan Crafts Development Centre

A centre where master weavers pass on traditional atlas and adras techniques to apprentices, with workshops visitors can watch.

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About the place

The centre was set up to keep the hand-made silk traditions of Margilan alive by training young people alongside experienced masters. In 2017 UNESCO added it to its register of good practices for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

Workshops are arranged around an old courtyard. Weavers, dyers and embroiderers work at their own pace, and visitors can watch the process and talk to the craftspeople about their patterns and natural dyes.

It is smaller and quieter than the Yodgorlik factory, and the two make a good pair on a day in Margilan.

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