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24Nov
Ten days in Cairo
What to expect at the annual exhibition, floor by floor.
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12Oct
Dyeing our own threads
How colour is made in Akhmim, and why no two batches match.
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03Sep
Three years of carving
Inside the Hagaza apprenticeship, from first cut to finished bowl.
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18Aug
A table set by two villages
How the Nile Table collection put cloth and wood together.
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02Jul
The woman who taught the pattern
A portrait of one of the workshop's longest-serving embroiderers.
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15Jun
Coptic cloth from Akhmim
What the museum pieces tell us about the designs still used today.