Taller Leñateros a combination of fiber, color and textures

Right by San Cristobal de las Casas, you will find the Lenateros Workshop. At this magical place leaves and seeds are transformed in a great variety of items along with recycled materials and natural fibers.

The Mexican poet Ambar Past founded this workshop in 1975. The objective is to document, and spread the cultural values of the locals, the songs, literature, and crafts and to rescue things and traditions that are about to disappear like the extraction of color from plants.

The lenateros create, show, invent new things and work in different ways to make handcrafted paper, notebooks, solar silkscreen, wood engraving and painting with plants. The organization is pro environment, recycle and to create work of art.

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Nucu a taste of our own

Here in Chiapas there is an exquisite dish that has been around for years and that lots of locals and tourists have enjoyed.  “The Chiapas caviar”.

The nucu is an ant that comes out after the first days of the rain season in Chiapas right before the sunrise.  The nucu comes from out of the ground to get reproduced at this point in some places people collect it to cook it and eat it.  Some other names to the nucu are: chicatana tzimin and zompopo being Nucu the most popular.

The price that you pay for it can be high since […]

Suchiapa “The way of the leaves”

Photography: René Araujo

Special thanks to: Domingo Champo Pérez

One of the biggest festivities in Suchiapa is the day they honor the “Santa Cruz” (holy Cross). On this day the tradition, which is called the way of the leaves, is about a plant called “espadana”.  This plant is found in Nambiyugua and its characterized by its leaves in a shape of a sword and pointy thorns.  This place is the scenario to perform what the ancestors have determined to the locals and close by communities.  The people make arrangements with lots of time and dedication so on April 26 of […]

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