The silk town · Uzbekistan
Hand-woven ikat, from silkworm cocoon to finished cloth.
Margilan has been a silk town for centuries. In its workshops you can follow the whole process: boiling cocoons, reeling thread, tying and dyeing the patterns, and weaving atlas (pure silk) and adras (silk and cotton) ikat on hand looms.
It is the best place in Uzbekistan to buy silk directly from the people who make it.
Don’t miss
From cocoon to cloth, with weavers at work.
A traditional Thursday and Sunday market just outside town.
A 19th-century madrasah in the old quarter.
Tours
Ashgabat → Darvaza gas crater → Kunya-Urgench → Khiva → Bukhara → Samarkand → Seven Lakes (Haft Kul) → Tashkent → Margilan → Osh → Bishkek → Song-Kul → Issyk-Kul → Almaty
Tashkent → Kokand → Rishtan → Margilan → Khiva → Desert fortresses of Khorezm → Bukhara → Nurata & Lake Aydarkul → Samarkand → Shakhrisabz
Tashkent → Kokand → Rishtan → Margilan
Nearby
Darvaza Trip · Koshona street 75/1, Khiva, Uzbekistan · WhatsApp +998 91 920 94 20 · tours.uzbekistan@gmail.com · darvazatrip.com/destinations/uzbekistan/margilan/
