Selected Artisans - The Global Eco Artisan Awards 2022

Selected Artisans

TEXTILE – SURFACE DÉCOR

Textiles represent cultures and traditions, life, dreams and creativity of makers and so much more. They are art forms carrying messages from the universe generation after generation. The art of ornamenting & decorating the surface of a fabric by hand is soul-fulfilling to makers and becomes precious possession for many. Here we have, the makers offering precious possessions.


Sanjar Nazarov

Sanjar Nazarov from Uzbekistan is an embroiderer who works with motifs and designs of the Lakai tribe, a nomadic tribe of Uzbekistan. Their motifs express the feelings of the women of those times. Sanjar mostly tries to use Lakai designs and motifs nowadays as they are disappearing day by day. The main thing that they are trying through their craft is to become important for their culture and to give the motifs endless life.