Akhmim is located in the heart of the Nile Valley in Upper Egypt, 450 km south of Cairo and on the eastern bank of the Nile in front of Sohag. It is considered one of the oldest cities in the world whose location has not changed since four thousand years. Akhmim has been known since the Pharaonic era for its distinctive textiles made of silk, linen and wool, and then from cotton in modern times. It was also known for its embroidery with silk, silver and gold threads to add more aesthetic values ​​to its textiles.

Young women and women of the village worked on embroidering drawings of birds, trees, palms, farmers, markets and others. A new type of plastic art was born based on free and spontaneous artistic embroidery with silk threads on cotton cloth colored in certain colors to work on embroidery that were not available in Akhmim stores, until hand looms were installed to produce them. The Akhmim women worked on the loom for the first time in the history of the industry.