Stellar Tablecloth

Goya Gallagher founded Anut Cairo around a simple premise: that Egypt’s textile and ceramic traditions, still very much alive in villages along the Nile, deserved a platform beyond souvenir shops. Named after Nut, the sky goddess of ancient Egyptian mythology, the house sources hand-painted pottery from the Fayoum oasis, hand-embroidered linens from its own Cairo training centre, and woven textiles from the historic weaving towns of Akhmim and Sohag. Its embroidery school and artist residency programme keep the emphasis on people and place as much as on the finished object.

Hand printed on 100% ecru linen, the Stellar Tablecloth stages a surrealist dream where planets, stars and the goddess Nut, protector of the sky, come together in an eclectic, fantastical composition. It is hand-crafted in Cairo by artisans at the Anut Cairo Embroidery Training Centre, tying the tablecloth’s mythology directly to the hands that made it.