Nebka pays tribute to the decorative modernity of the Egypt of the Pharaohs, its pattern directly inspired by the collections of the Swiss Egyptologist Gustave Jequier. The finesse of the small repetitive motif is made possible by the ancestral knowledge of Nepalese hand-knotting, still practised by hand in Kathmandu. Two old disciplines meet in it — Egyptian ornament and Himalayan craft — and the result feels effortlessly current.
