ECONOMIC LIFE OF KASHKADARYA OASIS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY – THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY

27.03.2023 International Scientific Journal "Science and Innovation". Series C. Volume 2 Issue 3

Rajabova Nilufar Nasrillayevna

Abstract. This article discusses the types of crafts that occupied a special place in the economic life of the Kashkadarya oasis in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, one of the handicraft industries in the cities of Karshi, Shakhrisabz, Kitab - the development of textiles, the production of boz, chita, olachi in large quantities. In the cities of Karshi and Guzor, they wove cloth-movut from camel wool called “bosma” and “light brown and black”, another type of fabrics produced from wool was called “bosman tibit”, artisans were engaged in dyeing in the Emirate of Bukhara, which was called in the sources "sabbags", fabrics were dyed in special workshops or artisans' houses, dyeing workshops were located in cities mainly near the market or within the city, in the cities of the Kashkadarya oasis such as Karshi, Shakhrisabz, Kitab, the position of pottery such as a jug, obdasta, chow-gum , barkash, plate, сhilim ashtrays and other products were made of very high quality, as well as internal and external trade in the cities of the Kashkadarya oasis, especially trade relations with the steppe population and nomads, which were analyzed according to historical sources, information, statistical data and archival sources

Keywords: handicraft, Kashkadarya oasis, textile, raw materials, cotton, wool, silk, Bukhara Emirate, Khiva and Kokan khanates, spun yarn, labor productivity, silk materials, woolen gauze, movut, needlework, dyers, merchants, Karshi, Shakhrisabz, Kitab, Guzor, souvenir, nomadic population, cocoon, yarn products.