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Rustam Usmanov Workshop-Museum

A family home, workshop and small museum in Rishtan where potter Rustam Usmanov works in the town's alkaline-glaze tradition.

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About the place

Rishtan, in the south of the Fergana Valley, is known for pottery covered in alkaline glazes, with deep blues and greens over local red clay. Rustam Usmanov is one of the town's best-known masters; he graduated from the Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute in 1980 and runs a workshop at his home.

The house on Burhoniddin Roshidoniy street combines the studio with a small museum of finished pieces. Visitors can watch the stages of the work, from shaping on the wheel to painting and glazing, and buy directly from the family. Give it around an hour and a half, and phone ahead if you want to see firing or a demonstration.

Why go

  • Rishtan alkaline-glaze pottery
  • Watch the work from wheel to glaze
  • Buy directly from the master's family

Sources (1)

  1. 1.en.wikipedia.org

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