For More Information on the Copts and Coptic Textiles

Selected Bibliography:

Badawy, Alexander. Coptic Art and Archaeology: The Art of Christian Egyptians from the Late Antique to the Middle Ages. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1978.

Baginski, Alisa and Amalia Tidhar. Textiles from Egypt: 4th-13th Centuries. C.E. L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Tavait Press, Tel-Aviv, 1980.

Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A.D. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island. Hondelink, H. (ed.) 1990

Carroll, Diane Lee. Looms and Textiles of the Copts: First Millennium Egyptian Textiles in the Carl Austin Rietz Collection of the California Academy of Sciences. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle. Friedman, Florence 1989

Coptic Art and Culture. The Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo, Shouhdy Publishing House, Cairo, 1987

Du Bourguet, Pierre M. The Art of the Copts. Art of the World series. New York: Crown Publishers, 1971.

Maguire, Eunice Dauterman, Henry P. Maguire, and Maggie J. Duncan-Flowers. Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House. Urbana and Chicago: Krannert Art Museum in association with the University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Maguire, Eunice Dauterman. Weavings from Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Egypt: The Rich Life and the Dance. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, 1999.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Helene. Coptic Fabrics. Adam Biro, Paris, 1990.

Shurinova, R. Coptic Textiles. Collection of Coptic Textiles, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Lenningrad, 1967.

Stauffer, Annemarie. Textiles of Late Antiquity. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995.

Thomas, Thelma K. Textiles from Medieval Egypt, A.D. 300-1300. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1990.

Torok, L. The Iconography of the Copts. Berlin: Ges. and Sprachwiss, 1971.

Trilling, J. The Roman Hertiage: Textiles from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. Textile Museum Journal. Vo. 21. Washington D.C., 1982.

Web Sites to Visit:

To learn more about Coptic culture and art:

A general introduction to Coptic Art:
http://pharos.bu.edu/cn/articles/CopticArtOfEgypt.txt

Visit the Coptic Museum web site:
http://www.idsc.gov.eg/culture/cop_mus.htm

To learn more about early Christianity in Egypt from Egypt's Culture Net:
http://www.idsc.gov.eg/culture/cop.htm

Check out the Coptic Network:
http://pharos.bu.edu/cn/Menu.html