The festival aims at promoting the importance of safeguarding and reviving the traditional crafts, creating favourable conditions for the development of quality craftsmanship and the use of handicrafts to create income-generating opportunities, especially for women.

Organizers are planning to hold the second edition of the festival more spectacular and celebrate the beauty and rich diversity of traditional and contemporary textile in Uzbekistan, which has received an important social and economic impulse for development during the years of independence.

Considering the success of the first edition, the second edition of the festival will have a wider programme, starting with practical training sessions for young masters on traditional embroidery, natural dyeing and fashion design using traditional textile, as well as marketing and communication training from 6–8 September 2016.

Within the festival, it is planned to organize round Table “Uzbek Textile and Sustainable Development”, exhibition of traditional textile and ethno fashion design of Uzbekistan “Under the Margilan sky” and exhibition “World textile: the East and the West”.

Folk festivities, including traditional art of with “Askia”, traditional fighting “Kurash”, rope-walking performance, puppet-show; traditional musical and folklore performances, exhibition of children’s drawings, crafts fair “Crafts village”, the plov contest “Dev-zira” will be organized as well.