Uzbekistan SILK FACTORY

Uzbekistan Silk Factory – relevance is timeless Uzbekistan is one of the oldest countries in Asia Central. It is located at the intersection of the old trade routes. The city was already known in ancient times because it manufactured the best silk in Central Asia.

Silk caravans from Uzbekistan to Kashgar, Baghdad, Khorasan and even Greece moving along the Silk Road. Silk reaches Central Asia in the middle of the 2nd millennium with the beginning of the development of the Great Silk Road.

The Uzbek khan-atlas is almost entirely handmade. Almost over 4,000 years old, Uzbek’s masters managed to develop their own unique yarn unwinding technique and technology from cocoon and yarn making Uzbek silk one of the best in the world.

The Margilan factory has its own history and is rich in artisans.

Founded in 1972, the factory produces a wide range of fabrics, such as address, silk, snipers, as well as carpets and hand embroidery, which are gaining popularity in the world market.

Designers and artisans from all over the world are currently working with the factory. The fabrics are delivered to many cities in the world.

Cocoon section

The initial meaning of a cocoon pot is to take silk from a cocoon in common Uzbek pots. Cocoon is a miracle product with no cocoon residue. The total length of a cocoon is 500 to 1600 meters. A dry cocoon weighs 0.3 g to 1 g. Yodgorlik Margilan company has technological processes for the production of silk satin, adras, tea, bekasab and silk rugs. In the cocoons section, boiling water is poured into an Uzbek pot to remove silk from the cocoons, 200 g to 2 kg of cocoons are squeezed.

The number of cocoons at the tip of the cocoon is 16 to 30 cocoons. Silk wrapped in a tube becomes a calava for processing. The weight of 1 calava can be from 100 g to 200 g. To get 1 kg of silk, you can use 2 kg to 4 kg of cocoons. The silkworm inside the cocoon is obtained from a pharmaceutical ointment, which restores the skin to the p / x level, and is sent to the dye for staining.
The silk produced in the Margilan Yodgorlik factory has no analogues in the world!

Yarn and yarn department

Raw silk, bleached silk, dyed silk, carpet silk, and thread are processed in the spinning department. To process yarn: silk is wound, divided into layers, folded, and steamed. Then the steamed silk is extracted from the babin.

And the bleached and dyed silk is wound on a bobbin. Silk can be folded from 2 to 50-90 layers.

Abrband Department

The word abrband is derived from the Persian word abr-bulut and band joining means to join clouds. Worldwide, this field is called Ikat. In Central Asia it is called Abrbandchilik. In the Abrband section, the patterns are drawn on the silk thread. To embroider the pattern on silk, the patterns are made using pure yellow soil from the thread and black clay under the pot.

After applying the pattern to the silk thread, the necessary places are tied before drawing the silk thread.

Depending on the type of pattern, silk can be dyed in different ways.

The patterns are drawn in the classic style created by our masters, combining modernity and nationalism. Copies drawn in the Abrband section can range from 2 to 16 colors.

Dyes

In Uzbek traditional folk art samples as ikat weaving, embroidery, carpet weaving and block-printing, the natural dyeing is a complex process, whing consists of 3 steps:

1) Extraction of colors based on good knowledge on dye plants;

2) Preparation of the pro-ducts for dyeing (silk bleaching, soaking the yarns and fabrics in alum)

3) Preparation of water for deying and washing off after dyeing.

In the round section, cloudy satin, cloudy direction, cloudy tea, bekasab, cloudy ice, fabric white are placed. The body can be from 20 to 400 meters.