The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

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.)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:07.8	This is the fifth floor.
0:11.5	The fifth floor, you knowssonous.
0:15.9	To me, Ikeye, the fifth floor, Farnak Amidi, Sobert.
0:20.8	This is the fifth floor at Farnak Amidi Sobath. This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world.
0:28.9	I'm your host, Faranak Amidi.
0:35.4	Walking down the street in London, I've often seen people wearing clothes decorated with very specific patterns, with colorful geometric shapes, repeated in rows, like mosaics.
0:48.5	This style is called eCAT and has been featured in many designers in high street stores collections.
0:54.8	I have a NICAT coat myself.
0:56.7	In fact, I'm actually wearing it right now.
0:59.3	It's knee length with large geometric shapes in bright yellow, blue, and black.
1:05.6	And I know where this design comes from, but do other people know?
1:10.3	Let's test my BBC World Service colleagues.
1:14.7	Where is this from? It's gorgeous.
1:17.0	Well, you guess.
1:19.6	I said Kyrgyzstan?
1:21.5	No. Do you know where this fabric is from?
1:24.2	No idea. Pakistan?
1:26.6	North Africa?
1:27.9	Zanzibar.
1:28.8	Okay, so most people didn't know where this fabric was from, but I actually know a group of people who definitely will know where it comes from.
1:39.2	Trostam, where is this fabric from?
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