Nag Hammadi Codex with Michael Burke - Saturday and Sunday July 25 and 26, 9 am to 4 PM

Based on historic bindings discovered in Nag Hammadi Egypt in December 1945. Local farmers found a sealed earthenware jar containing thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices dating to the 2nd century AD.

Join us for this weekend workshop constructing this ancient binding using leather and papyrus.

Michael Burke is a UK binder who studied bookbinding with Dominic Riley and paper conservation with Karen Zukor, both in San Francisco, where he lived from 1994-2001.

$300 plus a materials fee of $50 paid to instructor

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