Tag Archives: Petra Ediciones

A Book Trail in Mexico

By admin | Published: January 7, 2012

I was invited to the Guadalajara book fair, recently, on a publisher’s fellowship. Afterwards, my travels around Mexico took me to the state of Chiapas, to visit an extraordinary book making cooperative of Mayan women called Taller Lenateros, The Woodlanders’ Workshop. Impossible to sum up otherwise, I decided to turn my experience into a small [...]

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Snakes in the Museum

By admin | Published: February 3, 2010

Indian Cults and Folklore at the Musée du quai Branly Admittedly, our latest handmade book SSSS…Snake Art and Allegory is unexpected, even by our own standards. It combines a dense collection of Indian snake tales and legends with abstract – very spare – art by Ianna Andreadis, a Greek artist based in Paris. It’s co-published [...]

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