![]() Thread. The speed and accuracy at which they follow patterns and colours Together by using a wooden, hand-sized stick with a sharp edge to cut the Their job seems simple knotting and tying different coloured threads Time. The ages range from as young as nine-years-old to as old as 65. Uninterrupted eight-hour days, sometimes on more than one carpet at a ![]() In the courtyard leads you to where tens of employees work That remain in the owner’s office have resided there since his grandfather opened Certificates hang on most walls and the few pieces of furniture Palace still stand, along with the detailed, painted high ceilings, windows andĬhandeliers. Various side streets that you need to pass through to reach it.įrom the outside in, the factory doesn’t seem the part. Right near the palace, ask around for directions to El Kattan Carpets as there are Of its hidden location, it may be hard to get to: once you get to Hadayek El Kobba Once a palaceīelonging to Khedive Ismail, it is now hidden between a gridlock ofīuildings that gradually appeared over the years, as Cairo increasingly became a metropolitan city. Kattan Carpets opened its doors in 1930 as a carpet factory. ![]() Palace is one of the oldest handmade carpet factories in Egypt. Situated in Hadayek El Kobba where it once had a clear view of Kobba Artefacts, falafel yes, but carpets, not so ![]()
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