Tashkent - Post Report Question and Answers

Is this a "shopping post"? Are there interesting handicrafts, artwork, antiques, or other items that people typically buy there?

So.much.stuff! Pottery, rugs, crafts. - Aug 2022


Absolutely shopping post. Rugs/carpets out the wazoo! Gorgeous suzanis and ikat/adrass textiles. - Sep 2018


Plenty. A local textile handicraft called Suzani, pottery and ceramics, Atlas and Adras fabrics (cotton and/or silk hand-dyed), hand-tied carpets and rugs, carved wood items, affordable custom-made clothing, local musical instruments, etc. - Aug 2018


Carpets, suzanis, ceramics, art, wood carvings, etc. There are lots of things to buy. - Jul 2015


Chess sets, silk clothing items, ceramics, jewelry, wooden jewelry boxes, silk purses, carpets, paintings, Uzbek musical instruments. - Aug 2014


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