The silk town · Uzbekistan
Margilan travel guide
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.
- Time needed
- Half a day to 1 day
- Best time
- April–May and September–October
- Getting there
- Trains from Tashkent in about 4.5 hours; 20 minutes from Fergana city.
Don’t miss
Sights in Margilan
Don’t miss
What to see in Margilan
- 01
Silk workshops
From cocoon to cloth, with weavers at work.
- 02
Kumtepa Bazaar
A traditional Thursday and Sunday market just outside town.
- 03
Said Ahmad Khoja Madrasah
A 19th-century madrasah in the old quarter.
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