Craft guide
ORBISCRAFT & ATELIERS IN TASHKENT4 stores · curated ORBIS register
Old City, Tashkent
Workshop and shop for traditional Uzbek embroidered skullcaps (doppa) in silk, velvet and cotton with regional patterns from different cities.
Best for Traditional embroidered doppa skullcaps in silk, velvet, and cotton with regional patterns
Mirobod, Tashkent
A gallery-store selling Central Asian textiles, ceramics, jewelry, clothing, accessories, and home goods made by regional craftspeople. The shop represents work by more than 260 makers from across Central Asia.
Best for Central Asian textiles, ceramics, and jewelry from more than 260 regional makers
Sakichmon Street
J.Kim Objects is the Tashkent creative lab of J.Kim, blending experimental forms with Uzbek craft traditions and selling small objects and accessories from its Saqichmon Street space.
Best for J.Kim objects, accessories and Uzbek-craft-inflected design
Suzuk-Ota
Tashkent embroidery studio founded 2006 by Madina Kasimbaeva, a suzani master reviving the Tashkent school's yurma and bosma needle techniques; her work is held in the British Museum's permanent collection. By appointment.
Best for Suzani embroidery traditions taught and sold at this Tashkent studio and school
Madina Kasimbaeva, born in Tashkent in 1981, learned embroidery from her grandmother as a child and founded the Suzani by Kasimbaeva studio in 2006. She is recognized as the primary living reviver of the Tashkent school of suzani embroidery, using techniques including 'yurma' crochet-needle embroidery and 'bosma' stitching. In 2016 she won Uzbekistan's Best Craftsperson prize, and she is the only Uzbek designer whose work sits in the British Museum's permanent collection. Over roughly 25 years she has trained around 500 students. The studio produces suzani textiles, garments, accessories and home-decor pieces, working by appointment.
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