São Paulo – A stitching binding technique, created by a people that is part of Egypt's history, will be taught during a workshop in São Paulo next March. The said people are the Copts, a community as old as it is large, who occupied regions of current Cairo even before the city was founded in the 10th century AC. This culture includes the Coptic language and the largest Christian group in Egypt , as well as a stitching technique that, according to Adriana Amaral , who researches African art and culture, collaborated to the dissemination of old religious texts.

The origin of this technique is closed related to the period when Christianity was spreading. When the Coptic stitching came about and started developing the bookbinding technique, the first books were Biblical,' pointed out the artist, who teaches visual arts at Escola Municipal de Iniciação Artística in São Paulo.

After more than six years researching, the artist is preparing her first workshop Encadernação Copta em madeira , which will be taught in SESC Campo Limpo. 'In 2012, I became interested in bookbinding techniques. During the free courses I attended then, I discovered this Coptic technique and became very interested in it. It is Egyptian and deeply rooted in the African continent. I have done extensive researches on the cultural production from the African countries,' says the artist, who specializes in arts and crafts.

Egyptian stitching

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