The exhibition will be held within a programme “Week of Museums”, which will be held from 2 to 8 September 2014.

The exhibition was organized by State Applied Arts Museum and it will familiarize citizens and guests of Tashkent with rich collection of embroidered skull-caps, which are stored in collections of museums and works of young masters.

The exhibition will present various embroidered skull-caps from all regions and schools of Uzbekistan.

The Uzbek duppi is one of the types of applied art and part of national costume of the nation. The art reached its peach in the end of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th century, when the skullcap become popular and produced everywhere.

The word tyubeteyka (skullcap) comes from the Tatar word “tyubete”: tube - top. The Uzbek name for skullcap is “duppi”. The skullcaps have a variety of forms – peaked conical, hemispherical and square, round and dome forms.