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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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Eloina Ríos Madrigal hands used to create magic

The suit of Chiapaneca, a term coined from the time of the Spanish Conquest, has changed its shape and color, beginning in the decade of the 40 in a single tone(monochrome) to go to the various changes in the 70´s.

In 1947 the Chiapas are embroidered dresses only in semi-shaded background (tul) white, when the creativity of a great woman chiapacorceÒa ìEloÌna RÌos Madrigalî, is manifested by the concern to do something different. A change that completely transforms the original suit in Chiapas, the idea comes and takes place, is added aniline black color when starch is being prepared and stained the point, and starched and ironed is embroidered cut nuanced. From this day started with embroidery of the city, including development of flights returned stitchand stitch meshed shading (blue) and a single color.

The result is spectacular and the acceptance of the general population, to the extent that at the time many people consider as the original suit.

But beyond its history, this dress has a close relationship with the past, religion and lifestyle of the locals at the time: […]