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IFAM International Folk Art Market 2021 in USA: Uzbekistan is amongst favorite
21 July 2021
IFAM International Folk Art Market 2021 in USA: Uzbekistan is amongst favorite

Uzbek artisans participated at the annual festival “International Folk Art Market” (IFAM) organized in one of the cultural centers of the USA – Santa Fe, New Mexico during 7-18 July 2021.

As the Uzbek Embassy in the USA informs, representatives of national art schools take part in the annual Art Market on regular basis, which unites more than 150 artisans from 60 countries of the world.

During the festival organized since 2004, artisans have a unique opportunity to demonstrate not only the culture and traditions of their nation, but also to sell applied arts products to the guests and local people of New Mexico. In average, the total cost of sold products at the fair makes about 3 million USD.

The Secretary of the Board of IFAM Hank Coleman mentioned that organizing the national the festival this year was indeed a special occasion while overcoming the pandemic negative effect in the world:

-  IFAM 2021 is obviously covering a little less volume than the previous years due to the health and safety measures applied during the event. We are glad that this year’s event is attended by more participants from Uzbekistan. During the past recent years we became to know about Uzbekistan by the means of great masters’ works that visit International Folk Art Market IN Santa Fe on regular basis. We continuously keep purchasing national arts items from Uzbekistan that have won our hearts. I would also like to express my gratitude to the Ambassador of Uzbekistan for the support provided to the artisans from Uzbekistan to participate in IFAM 2021.

As Uzbek Embassy informed, the group of artisans and craftsmen from Uzbekistan have become one of the biggest delegations taking part at the festival. More than 20 masters, including the famous tailor Gulnora Adilova, who presented a large range of traditional Uzbek textile products made of silk, designed in Iroki style embroidery of Shakhrisabz.

Uzbek artisans and craftsmen are becoming favorite ones each year during the event, thus being able to sell their products at the total amount of 250-500 thousand USD overall. The current event of 2021 did not become an exception either, by attracting huge interest of the visitors and guests to Uzbek national art items presented at the event.

This year Uzbekistan presented a large assortment of traditional Uzbek art samples in 6 stands, such as silk and wooden carpets, garment and other items made from traditional Uzbek fabrics, shoes, jewelry, ceramic items handcrafted by the great master of internationally well-known art schools off Bukhara, Samarkand, Shakhrisabz and other cities of Uzbekistan.

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Did you know?

Uzbekistan is one of only two countries in the world to be ‘double landlocked’ (landlocked and totally surrounded by other landlocked countries). Liechtenstein is double landlocked by 2 countries whilst Uzbekistan is surrounded by 5!

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Uzbekistan is the world capital of melons. They have in excess of 150 different varieties, which form a staple part of the local diet, served fresh in the summer and eaten dried through the winter.

It is Uzbek tradition that the most respected guest be seated farthest from the house’s entrance.

Tashkent’s metro features chandeliers, marble pillars and ceilings, granite, and engraved metal. It has been called one of the most beautiful train stations in the world.

The Uzbek master chef is able to cook in just one caldron enough plov to serve a thousand men.

When you are a host to someone, it is your duty to fill their cups with for the whole time they are with you.  What you must not do, however, is to fill their cup more than half-full.  If you do that as a mistake, say it is a mistake immediately.  Doing it means you want them to leave.  Wow!  Amazing, right?

To Uzbeks, respect means a whole lot.  For this reason they love it if, even as foreigners, you endeavour to add the respectful suffix opa after a woman's name; and aka after a man's.  Example: Linda-opa and David-aka.  You could also use hon and jon respectively.

Having been an historic crossroads for centuries as part of various ancient empires, Uzbekistan’s food is very eclectic. It has its roots in Iranian, Arab, Indian, Russian and Chinese cuisine.

Though identified with the Persia, the Zoroastrism probably originated in Bactria or Sogdiana. Many distinguished scholars share an opinion that Zoroastrianism had originated in the ancient Khorezm. Indeed, today in the world there were found 63 Zoroastrian monuments, including those in Iran, India, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Thirty-eight of them are in Uzbekistan, whereas 17 of these monuments are located in Khorezm.

One of Islam's most sacred relics - the world's oldest Koran that was compiled in Medina by Othman, the third caliph or Muslim leader, is kept in Tashkent. It was completed in the year 651, only 19 years after Muhammad's death. 

Tashkent is the only megapolis in the world where public transport is totally comprised of Mercedes buses. And due to low urban air polution it is one of the few cities where one can still see the stars in the sky.

You would be surprised to know that modern TV was born in Tashkent. No joke! The picture of moving objects was transmitted by radio first time in the world in Tashkent on 26 of July 1928 by inventors B.P. Grabovsky and I.F. Belansky.

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Famous Islamic physician Ibn Sina (Avicenna in the Latin world) who was born near Bukhara was the one of the first people to advocate using women’s hair as suture material – about 1400 years ago.

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Uzbekistan was once a rum producig country. There is still a real arboretum in Denau (city near Termez on the border with Afghanistan), grown from a selection station that studied the prospects of plant growing in the unusual for the Soviet Union subtropical climate of Surkhandarya region: only here in the whole of the USSR sugar cane was grown and even rum was produced!

Uzbekistan has been ranked one of the safest countries in the world, according to a new global poll. The annual Gallup Global Law and Order asked if people felt safe walking at night and whether they had been victims of crime. The survey placed Uzbekistan 5th out of 135 countries, while the UK was 21st and the US 35th. Top five safest countries:

  • Singapore
  • Norway
  • Iceland
  • Finland
  • Uzbekistan
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