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The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

Update: 2024-11-02
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How are the popular Ikat designs made? BBC journalist Ibrat Safo explores Uzbekistan's love story with textiles. Plus, Sanjaya Dhakal of BBC Nepali explains why a group of Kathmandu artists launched an inventive campaign to repatriate their country's stolen art.

'Silk Roads' is at the British Museum in London until February 2025.

Produced by Alice Gioia, Caroline Ferguson and Hannah Dean.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)

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The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

BBC World Service