Ancient Coptic art,
colored by your hand.
We cut crosses, keychains and icon boards from wood in the old Coptic grid style — and leave them uncolored, so the color becomes yours. Then we sit together in workshops and fill them in.
What we make
Uncolored crosses
Bare birch, grid engraved. The color is the part we leave to you.
Keychain crosses
Pocket-size and uncolored — the easiest first piece for children.
Icon boards
Uncolored icons inside a frame we color, so you start inside finished ornament.
Colored by us
Finished in the studio, in the traditional palette, when you want it ready.
Color one square
at a time.
Coptic ornament is built on a grid — every motif is squares, steps and crosses. Pick a color and fill the cells; this is exactly what happens in our workshops, only with brushes and wood.
Pick a color, then tap the squares.
Pieces to color
The main thing we do is sit and color together
“My daughter colored her cross in the workshop. It hangs over her bed now — she chose every color herself.”
Come color with us
Workshops run most weeks in Cairo and Alexandria, and we travel to churches and schools anywhere in Egypt.