Published! Bukhara Jeweller innovates tradition for Times of Central Asia
A man in his mid-forties, Negmatov was born and trained in Bukhara and has nearly three decades of experience as a jeweler. His native city has been a center of gold and silver work for well over a millennium, and craftsmanship helped shape the city itself: as many as two hundred crafts are believed to have flourished here, with each neighborhood, or mahalla, tied to a particular one.
I wrote about the craftmanship of Uzbek jeweler Zokir Negmatov for Times of Central Asia.
