Coptic Bookbinding from the 4th-7th Century IN-PERSON 2025WKSP-03-30

  • 30 Mar 2025
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Don Taylor Bindery, Toronto
  • 4

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IN-PERSON: Coptic Bookbinding from the 4th-7th Century with Don Taylor

 

Scrolls were all very well but what the Western world really needed was the codex.


What we think of as the book form was first developed by Coptic Christians living in Egypt and the earliest evidence that we have is from the 4th C CE.


In this course you will use papyrus, leather, handmade paper, silver, gold, and bone to sew, design and create a series of Coptic bindings of increasing complexity in the spirit and style of the earliest book forms, each one as unique as its creator.

 

Beautiful, sensual and imbued with a sense of history, these books will give you a base for further creative work.

 

Don Taylor is a bookbinder and restorer who works and teaches in Toronto. He has taught for CBBAG since 1984. He was trained in bookbinding and design at Sheridan College and the Three Schools of Art and has studied with Betsy Palmer Eldridge. His work is exhibited widely and is represented in public and private collections across Canada, and he can be found at http://www.dontaylorbookbinder.com/ 

 

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Location: Don Taylor Bindery, 222 Islington Ave, Unit 224, Toronto ON M8V 3W7

Date: 3 Sundays, March 30, April 6, and April 13, 2025

Hours: 10 am – 5 pm

Course fee: $315 members/$375 non-members

Materials fee: $65 payable to the instructor

Prerequisite: BB1 or permission of the instructor

MAXIMUM ENROLLMENT: 5 Participants


Registration closes Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Notes: Participant-requested cancellations will be accepted up to 3 days prior to the published cut-off date for registration and will be subject to a 10% cancellation fee (a minimum of $5). After that, the full fee will be forfeited. In the event of the workshop being cancelled by CBBAG, the workshop fee will be fully refunded.

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