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Taller Leñateros a combination of fiber, color and textures
Taller Leñateros a combination of fiber, color and textures

June 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

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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Lacandones
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Lacandones

May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

Lacandones

The Lacandones are one of the most remote ethnic groups that come fro the Maya Culture still remaining. They call themselves “hach winic” which means “real man”. Some things that stand out from the Lacandones is their handmade work with fabric, ceramic, flutes and a kind of boat called “piraguas” which are boats that only fit 1 to 2 persons.

The name “Lacandon” comes from their very beginnings when they used to live in an island in the Lacantun River, so they were known as “the Lacantun”, with time the name changed to Lacandones.

This group of people has tried to keep […]

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Suchiapa “The way of the leaves”
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Suchiapa “The way of the leaves”

May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría

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 […]

By Guía Chiapas|2017-02-07T21:34:42-06:00mayo 1st, 2012|Categories: May 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: activities, altars, ancestors, arrangements, carnival, celebration, Chiapas, collect, collector, communities, dedication, domingo champo pérez, espadaña, faith, family, festivities, food, generation, hill, hojeros, holy cross, las hojas river, leaf, leaves, locals, music, nambiyugua, place, plant, pointy thorns, pozol, rhythm, santa cruz, scenario, shape of a sword, suchiapa, the way of the leaves, tradition, traditional, Tuxtla Gutiérrez AV, villaflores|0 Comments

Tepache or chicha

The word comes from the Nahuatl tepache “tepiatl” which means corn drink was made with this cereal but now its most famous is produced by the mixture of pineapple and sugar.

One of the most popular fermented beverage of Mexico, as it usually has a low alcohol level in form of processing (less than 1% Alc. V ol), the custom of making this drink with corn continues in several communities especially Indians of Mexico, as in the states of Oaxaca, Queretaro, Guerrero, Sonora, Yucatan and Chiapas, where a higher alcohol level was subject to Mayan religious cults.

Today in Chiapas, tepache is made for both home and commercial use, although the quantity produced has been slowing due to […]

By Guía Chiapas|2017-02-07T21:34:44-06:00marzo 1st, 2012|Categories: March 2012 | gch ®, Sin categoría|Tags: alcohol, beverage, brown sugar, celebration, cereal, Chiapas, chicha, communities, corn, drink, guerrero, indians, mayan, méxico, mixture, náhuatl, oaxaca, panela, pineapple, pineapple skins, querétaro, religious cults, sonora, tapachula, tepache, tepiatl, Tuxtla Gutiérrez AV, word, yucatán|0 Comments