Our Threads.
Every FÅGELBO bag holds a world of textile art: embroidery and tapestry—fragile yet enduring.
The artistry is always singular. Each tapestry is woven freehand, without sketches or copies, giving imagination form on the loom. The embroidery is brought to life through slow, patient handwork, building rhythm stitch by stitch.
This commitment to the unrepeatable is why every FÅGELBO bag is numbered, marking its place in the world as a one-of-a-kind creation.
Fine Cotton Tapestry
Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center · Harraniya, Egypt
In the 1960s, Ramses Wissa Wassef set out to prove that true creativity could thrive without templates or instructions. From this vision came the fine cotton tapestries of Harraniya — a craft that few dared attempt.
Cotton is notoriously resistant to colour. Each shade can take up to fifteen days of patient dyeing before it holds. On the loom, the weaver sits before rows of delicate threads, passing spools of colour back and forth, watching the image appear slowly, like memory surfacing.
Small in scale but vast in detail, these tapestries are fragile yet luminous. Critics have compared them to the simplicity and clarity of Ancient Egyptian art — not as imitation, but as a return to something timeless: images that breathe life without excess.
Every work follows three simple rules: no pre-sketching, no repetition, no copying. Each tapestry is unrepeatable, a singular world imagined by its maker.
Embroidery
Embroidery is drawing in thread. Each motif is stitched by hand, growing slowly into form. A bird’s wing, a cluster of flowers, a pattern of lines: embroidery allows for textures and rhythms that can’t be achieved on the loom.
In FÅGELBO, embroidery is a language. Across the Middle East, it has long carried meaning: amulets of protection, signs of prosperity, symbols of belonging. To embroider is to place memory into fabric, to bind stories into form.
Every stitch is slightly different, the mark of the hand that made it. What may appear irregular is in fact deliberate: a rhythm, a pulse, a human signature. These details are what give each piece its life.
Living Threads
Like birds building their nests, our artists work piece by piece, thread by thread, creating places where care, memory, and beauty can live. No two pieces can ever be the same — each FÅGELBO bag is a mark of its distinctive world carried in thread and leather.
