Monday, June 9, 2014

5 and 6 June - Silk and Spice Festival, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

The festival is a very colourful yearly event with artisans and shop keepers from Uzbekistan and neighbouring countries showing their silks and other items with the spice merchants pounding on the spices as they are sold. The day before the festival begun students paraded through the streets in costume rehearsing for the weekend festivities.







Pottery figures

Pointy nosed shoes
Coppersmith

Designs for stamping into bread

Dried gourds for filling with spices
Pottery



 
Weaving silk






This lady was enjoying herself (and I was not going to dance!)



And this lady too



I am not going to smile

One is a man, the other a puppet. True.
 
Spices














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