Taller Leñateros is a cultural society and an alliance of Maya and mestizo women and men. Mexican poet Ambar Past founded in 1975.[1] Taller Leñateros promotes longstanding Indigenous practices of dyeing and papermaking techniques, as well as preserving, supporting, and disseminating Maya and related Indigenous popular culture and oral history.[2]
The publishing collective creates books written, illustrated, printed, and bound — in paper of their own making — by Maya people.[3] It employs local artists to make eco-friendly recycled paper and print and bind original artists’ books containing Maya songs, poetry, and stories in multiple languages.[4]
Taller Leñateros has contributed significantly to the increased visibility of women writers during the boom feminino.[5]