Craft & Ateliers in Cairo

Cairo

6901 Cairo designs menswear and womenswear including tops, bottoms, jackets, dresses and accessories, priced in Egyptian pounds. Its collections have included The White Collection, Spring Fling, El Masyaf '26, The Seasonless Edit and The Atelier.

Best for Contemporary egyptian menswear and womenswear

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159 26th of July Street, Mohamed Mazhar, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt / Cairo / Egypt

Ateeq Design is adjudicated at house level separately from every physical city door. Production is associated with Egypt, while the range centers on regional craft with a named maker.

Best for Regional craft with a named maker.

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Zamalek

Non-profit shop supporting over 2,000 Egyptian artisans, selling handblown glass, pottery, brasswork, and embroidered textiles from across the country.

Best for Handblown glass, pottery, brasswork and embroidered textiles from more than 2,000 fair-trade Egyptian artisans

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Islamic Cairo (behind Bab Zuwayla)

Located behind Bab Zuwayla on Cairo's last covered medieval street, this tentmakers' workshop produces khayamiya appliqué, hand-stitched cloth panels and wall hangings whose technique reaches back millennia. With only around twenty shops and a few dozen stitchers left on the street, its master craftsmen sew every piece by hand.

Best for Hand-stitched khayamiya appliqué

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14 Kamal El Tawil Street, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt / Cairo / Egypt

Official story: founded 20 years ago by Ghada Abdelhak as a Nile-side boutique of Egyptian artisan textiles, jewelry and pottery. Indagare independently lists the same Zamalek door and describes a regional edit of embroidered bags, scarves, jewelry and linens.

Best for Egyptian artisan textiles, jewellery and pottery from a Nile-side boutique.

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Zamalek, Cairo

Safarkhan Art Gallery, whose Instagram handle references 1968, exhibits contemporary and modernist Egyptian art across oil paintings, mixed media, sculpture, lithographs, watercolors and marble mosaics, including a Mosaics of Dahshur marble workshop collaboration. Artists shown include Omar Abdel Zaher, Ibrahim Khatab, Neama El Sanhoury and Katherine Bakhoum.

Best for Modern and contemporary egyptian art

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