Rishton Pottery: Uzbekistan's Ancient Blue Ceramics Along the Silk Road

Discover Rishton, Uzbekistan’s best-known pottery town, where more than 2000-year-old pottery-making, especially blue-glazed ceramics made with traditional ishkor glaze, continues to shape everyday life. After weeks exploring Uzbekistan’s Silk Road cities—Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva—we travelled east into the Fergana Valley, in particular the town Rishton, where people have been making pottery…