Linen Backpack with Hand Embroidered Tree of Life

• Backpack handmade with genuine leather and handwoven linen with an exquisitely embroidered pigeon perched on the tree of life
• Traditional handwork sewn with care by Egyptian women in Akhmim village
• Interior fully lined
• Approx. L 22 cm x H 22 cm x W 12 cm
• Fulfillment and shipment from Canada

 

The Artisans

The Akhmim project is one of the development initiatives of the Association of Upper Egypt for Education and Development (AUEED). This project gives the opportunity for girls and women to perpetuate a 4000 years old local textile industry by allowing them to weave traditional products and revive Coptic and Islamic designs from the region dating back to the 3rd century AD.