Each village keeps its own craft, its own artisans and its own colour. Together they make one collection.
أخميم
In Sohag, women weave 100% Egyptian cotton and embroider it freely, drawing scenes from village life and reviving Coptic and Islamic designs from their own region.
حجازة
In Qena, about 20 km north of Luxor, young men carve sarso wood by hand over a three-year apprenticeship: bowls, boards, toys and lanterns.
Pieces from the Nile Table collection, where woven cotton meets carved wood.
Buying here pays the artisan, not a middleman, and keeps two crafts alive in the places they come from.
What to expect at the annual exhibition, floor by floor.
How colour is made in Akhmim, and why no two batches match.
Inside the Hagaza apprenticeship, from first cut to finished bowl.
