Nodir Bakhshilloevich Djumaev

Uzbekistan

Year(s) attended: 2010

Jewelry

Nodir Djumaev’s jewelry is luxurious and sophisticated. Using techniques dating back to the eighth and nineth centuries in Bukhara,

Nodir learned the jewelry crafts from his father, who is a gold embroiderer, and his mother. Nodir uses filigree and ornamental techniques in his earrings, bracelets and forehead and chest decorations.

Located in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road, Bukhara has long been a crossroads for culture, religion and trade. Through the ages, jewelry has enjoyed a special place in Bukhara.

The jewelry, replete with its precious and semi-precious encrusted stones such as rubies, sapphires, cornelian, agates, jasper, corals, pearls, turquoise, opal and tourmaline, represented rare objects fit for royalty. Nodir often still uses this mix of stones in his jewelry.

While silver was used throughout the region, gold was used only in the court of khans and in the court of the Bukhara Emir. The work Nodir produces retains that certain royal significance today.