The Stans 🇰🇿 🇺🇿 🇰🇬 🇹🇯 🇹🇲 🇵🇰 🇦🇫
Contents
Quarterly essay
- The long and winding Silk Road: My quest to uncover treasures from Central Asia by Christina Sumner
Live in the Stans
- Shyrdak: A sunny day in Kyrgyzstan by Dinara Chochunbaeva
- Dekh Magar Pyaar Say: Meanderings into the sublime by Sahr Bashir
- Sheraz Faisal ✿ Art becomes jewellery in Lahore by Asad Hayee
- Keste: Kazakhstan embroidery that celebrates nature by Raushan Kargabekova
- Why the copy of a Turkmen wedding dress is better than the original by Hermann Rudolph
- “If you want to know about us, examine our buildings.”: A Journey through Uzbekistan by Mary Jose
Sharing skills across the Stans
- Five fingers full of skill: Four artisans from Tajikistan by Ikromi Nigina
- From Samarkand to Kütahya: A Silk Road of shared skills by Kevin Murray
- Good news from Afghanistan: Hadya starts her own business by Roshan Safi
- Aziz Murtazaev ✿ Why I returned from London by Kevin Murray
- Alisher Nazirov ✿ Gifts of skill connect Uzbekistan and Japan by Kevin Murray
- Hunar: Craft and community in Uzbekistan by Kevin Murray
Craft journeys
- The tree of life extends its branches from Iran to France by Leila Farzaneh
- Uzbekistan and the promise of apple trees by Layla Walter
- Carlier Makigawa ✿ Delirious in Uzbekistan by Helen Britton
- When nomads come to town: Sustaining weaving traditions on the Ladakhi Changthang Plateau by Catherine Allié
- Craft tours on offer
- Culture, craft and cuisine in West Bengal by Liz Wauchope
- A journey shared, India dared and why I take tours…. by Julia Raath
- Shaping the divine in the lanes of Kumartuli by Ananya Hazarika
- Finding the spirit of clay in Rajasthan by Serena Rosevear
- The Baluchars of West Bengal by Swadha Sonu
- Saori weaving: Striving for irregularity by Kaz Madigan
- Lessons learned from a duck herder’s gamelan 🎵 by Rosie Cook
On the road
- Weaving Pang Jai: In search of old Hong Kong by Eloise Rapp
- Sri Lanka tapestries: Postcards from home by Cresside Collette
- A perfect red: The tale of a dye by Eric Mindling
- Guildhouse, The Ghan and gumnut earrings by Lauren Simeoni
- Carried Away: A bag of the month by Grace Lai
The wider world
- Layerscapes: Colonial history on a thread by Sera Waters
- Museum of Emotion: Artefacts of Separation and Memory by Lesley O’Gorman
- The Gallery of Small Things: An intimate horizon by Anne Masters