Need art to hang in your tent? Get thee to Cairo.
On a dusty Cairo street at Souk Al Khayamiyya run seams and stitches holding together Egypt’s rich cultural tapestry.
Luxurious fabrics are delicately laid and interwoven to depict bright blue sparrows, a vase of flowers, geometric maze-like marvels, Quranic verses, and blessings to God.
But these aren’t displays meant for a palace or museum. They’re wall art for tents.
A walk along the roofed street of Souk Al Khayamiyya, literally the tent-makers market, between the buzzing motorbikes and puttering tuk-tuks, is a colorful journey through the cultures and civilizations that touched Egypt and the greater Islamic world.
From the row of workshops hang tapestries,
Moveable palacesArtistic revivalIt’s all in the stitching