Over the years of research was already gathered an electronic collection of Central Asian Ikat images: Ikats of local Uzbek and European museums, of private collections in Uzbekistan and Europe, of literary sources (books, magazines, periodicals), in textile shops, on famous textile markets in Uzbekistan.

A multitude of photo- and video-materials about ikats was produced during the field investigations in the main Ikat-Producing-Centers of modern Uzbekistan in 2008-2011 during the first part of the project. The goal was to develop an electronic multimedia edition of traditional Ikats as a textiles Database for scientific, educational, and handicraft production purposes, for textile professionals, scientists, artists and students.

The possibilities of electronic data and the WorldWideWeb have inspired this broad-ranging and multi-disciplinary project on further research and knowledge transfer about Ikat textiles of Uzbekistan in order to analyze, streamline and formalize the scientific knowledge about the subject.