Fields and Village on the Nile
Traditional woven tapestry which depicts daily village life upon the banks of the river Nile. Scenes like this are changing due to the rapid growth of a modern Cairo. Mahrous Abdou is an artist-weaver who created this tapestry, and learnt how to weave as a young boy.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 402/2009
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Material
- cottonnatural dyes
- Common Name
- Fields and Village on the Nile
- Simple Name
- tapestry
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Town
- Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre, Harrania
- Production Country
- Egypt
- Production Person Initials
- Mahrous; Ikram; Sophie
- Production Person Surname
- Abdou; Noshi; Wissa Wassef
- Production Year Low
- 2008
- Production Year High
- 2009
