Threads of Hope Cairo

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#360events- Drosos foundation marked 20 years of impact in Egypt, shaping the future and driving meaningful change, through a day that brought together voices from across sectors under one shared purpose. From dynamic learning circles and hands-on workshops to powerful conversations, perfomances, and exhibitions. Collective Impact Day highlighted the strength of collaboration and the ideas driving progress forward. A gathering that reflected not just on achievements, but on what’s next.

A beautiful day and a great opportunity to learn more about organizations and projects dedicated to serving the underprivileged and refugee communities in Egypt. Thanks to the Drosos Foundation & American University Cairo attendees got to enjoy hands on experiences and interact with the lovely volunteers that run these initiatives. A special thanks to @threadsofhopecairo for your beautiful program, products, and patience in teaching us embroidery techniques.

Dontanani, @lauradayoub @threadsofhope — surface language. A chair that dissolves the line between structure and textile. Threads interlaced into dense, tactile fields; beading clustered like dates and doum. Every element holds a reference. Seen closely, it becomes a landscape of movement, labor, and memory. Photography: @louay_nasser Creative studio: @maisonmehany

Much of our AW25 collection was made with light-mid weight fabrics milled and sourced in Egypt. All cottons and linens. We knew it would transition perfectly into Spring/Summer The Jasmine shirt is made from a 100% cotton and our Ajour shirt is made from a 100% linen. Both feature beautiful hand work from @threadsofhopecairo , hand embroidery on our Jasmine shirt and Ajour on the other, a special technique that creates open work patterns by manipulating the warp and weft threads. Riyam in both shot around our studio by @frayser_

@threadsofhope — surface language In the close-up, the chair reveals its inner rhythm. Threads interlace into dense, tactile fields, expanding into three-dimensional textures that mimic the layered structure of palm fronds. Each stitch carries variation, holding the imprint of the hand that made it. Beading punctuates the surface. Clusters emerge like fruit, referencing dates and doum, symbols of nourishment and abundance across the region. Nothing is applied without meaning. Every element holds a reference. The armrests, backrest, and seat dissolve into a continuous surface, blurring the boundary between structure and textile. What appears soft carries strength. What appears decorative carries narrative. Seen closely, the chair becomes a landscape. Of movement, of labor, of memory. A tactile expression of resilience, where material, craft, and identity are woven into one continuous form. Position 006 — revealing. Photographer: @louay_nasser Creative studio: @maisonmehany #dontanani#designmadeinegypt

Rooted to the earth- literally. This beautiful orange tote bag from @threadsofhopecairo derives its rich hue from madder root-a plant native to Egypt that yields rich orange and red shades on textile. Unlike hazardous chemical dyes that release large amounts of toxins into the water, madder is a natural dye that is gentle to the planet and leaves behind no toxic residue.

@threadsofhope — material exploration The chair emerges through gesture. Crochet, stitching, and assembly become tools of construction, building surfaces that shift between flatness and volume, between structure and movement. Each element is shaped by hand, allowing the material to respond, adapt, and evolve through making. At the core of this process is the collaboration with Threads of Hope, where over 300 refugee and migrant women work through home-based craft practices, carrying techniques such as crochet, embroidery, and ajour across generations and geographies. Alongside them, designer Laura Dayoub brings a narrative-driven approach to material, shaped by her background in fashion design and her focus on storytelling through texture, form, and transformation. Together, the process becomes collective. A convergence of hands, histories, and disciplines. Beads are introduced not as decoration, but as markers, referencing fruit, abundance, and cycles of nourishment. Crochet expands beyond textile, becoming structure. Surfaces are manipulated to create depth, allowing the chair to move visually, almost as if it were growing. The making is not fixed. It is alive. A continuous translation from palm to process, from gesture to form. #dontanani#designmadeinegypt

Position 005 — @threadsofhope Rooted, yet always reaching upward. This piece begins with the palm, not only as material, but as a living symbol embedded across cultures of the region. From Phoenix dactylifera to Hyphaene thebaica, the palm has long stood as a figure of resilience, a being that bends, adapts, and continues to grow in the harshest conditions. Across geographies, it has carried layered meanings: a source of nourishment, a provider of shade, a marker of hospitality, a symbol of endurance and renewal. A tree that gives, endlessly. Within this context, the chair becomes more than an object. It becomes a reflection. Developed in collaboration with Threads of Hope and Laura Dayoub, the piece embodies a shared condition of resilience and continuity. For the women behind its making, the palm is not symbolic alone; it is lived experience, memory, survival, and identity. The chair translates this into form. Threaded surfaces expand and contract like woven fronds. Beading introduces moments of abundance, echoing clusters of dates. Structure and texture move together, creating a sense of rhythm, of growth, of becoming. To sit is to enter this language. To momentarily inhabit the palm. Not as an observer, but as part of it. Because here, the palm is not separate from us. We are the palm. The journey extends.

@SceneHome : The woven palm chair is a familiar one. It can be found scattered across the Egyptian countryside, perched in front of someone’s home, or surrounding tables at local cafés and restaurants. It is an object whose familiarity has rendered it unremarkable; and it is an object Don Tanani, a Cairo-based design studio, seeks to honour with their collection, Nakhl. First launched during Art d’Egypt 2025, the collection is three years in the making, a time in which founders Alia and Tamara El Tanani deconstructed the chair to study where it came from, what it means, and where it could go. “The pieces we produce are full of life,” Alia and Tamara tell SceneHome. “They are by no means static objects. They are timeless and should stand the test of time.” The palm chair is no exception to this. It is a chair that “stems out of our culture, out of our identity, out of our history,” explains Alia El Tanani. “Nobody really knows when they started, and yet they’re instantly recognisable as being our heritage. They’re related to ancient Egyptian ceremonial chairs, but in a very simple way.” Long embedded in Egypt’s visual and material landscape, the palm chair is defined by its accessibility and simplicity. “It’s the most sustainable piece of design we have,” says El Tanani. Made from local material, it is extremely lightweight and durable - its form quietly perfected over generations of craftsmen. “It is democratically used all around Egypt,” explains El Tanani, “from the North to the South to the East to the West, you have villages, and they have palm trees - and they are all making this product.” For the collection, Don Tanani invited a group of eight Egyptian designers, artists, and studios to reinterpret the palm chair through their own lenses, transforming the chair into a site of shared artistic experimentation and expression. These collaborative ‘groves’, as the studio calls them, allow artists the space to interpret their own culture and history for themselves, creating a cluster of distinct yet related voices. Read the full feature on scenehome.com (link in bio). 📸 @dontanani 🖋️ Hannah Harris

One stitch at a time, until a rainbow appeared 🧵🌈 Our Rainbow Scarf is dropping so soon! Get ready to wrap yourself in color and joy 💕 This beautiful scarf featured here was lovingly handcrafted by the talented women of Threads of Hope Cairo — a celebration of skill, strength, and artistry in every stitch. 🌈✨

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