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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/alternator-studios-coptic-stitch
 -workshop-ny-based-artist-debra-eck/
SUMMARY:Alternator Studio & Project Space: Alternator Studios: Coptic Stitc
 h workshop with NY based artist Debra Eck
DESCRIPTION:Coptic Stitch workshop with NY based artist Debra Eck\nSunday 1
 3th August 1.30 – 4pm.  Alternator Studios\, Balls Road East\, Birken
 head.\n£25 per person.   Materials provided.\nTo book a place\, contact
  Wendy Williams : wendwilluk@yahoo.co.uk\n\nWorkshop Description\n\nCopti
 c binding or Coptic sewing comprises methods of bookbinding employed by ea
 rly Christians in Egypt and marks the transition from scroll texts to the 
 book as we think of it today. The style was used from the 2nd century AD t
 o the 11th century\, and has experienced a revival as a practical non-adhe
 sive style of binding for book artists.\n\nCoptic bindings\, the first tru
 e codices\, are characterized by one or more sections of parchment\, papyr
 us\, or paper sewn through their folds\, and attached to each other with c
 hain stitch sewing across the spine\, rather than to the thongs or cords r
 unning across the spine that characterise European bindings from the 8th c
 entury onwards.\n\nWorkshop participants will recycle discarded library bo
 oks\, using simple tools and readily available materials. The resulting jo
 urnal/sketchbook opens completely flat\, perhaps the most attractive featu
 re of the Coptic style of binding. We will be leaving the spine uncovered 
 although later European versions sometimes have leather covered spines.\n\
 nBiography\n\nDeb Eck is an internationally exhibited book and installatio
 n artist who works primarily with paper\, text and thread. She is most wel
 l known in the book arts community for her translations of historic embroi
 dery designs into functional binding designs. Originally from Essex in the
  UK\, she has lived and worked in upstate New York for over 20 years. Eck 
 received a BFA in painting from the University at Buffalo and an MA in Vis
 ual Culture from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle (UK). She teac
 hes as an adjunct at Jamestown Community College and Fredonia State Univer
 sity\, and for many other arts and cultural organizations.\n\nShe has been
  the recipient of many grants and awards\; most recently she was named the
  Distinguished Artist for 2017 by Cattaraugus County Arts Council.\n\nhttp
 ://debraeck.com\n&nbsp\;
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LOCATION:Alternator Studio & Project Space\, 57-59 Balls Road East\, Wirral
 \, CH41 2UP\, Wirral\, United Kingdom
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