El papel proviene de un \u00e1rbol que se llama \u201cficus omorus\u201d de la familia de las moras. Al \u00e1rbol se le hace una incisi\u00f3n y se extraen largas correas de su corteza, la parte interna es la que se ocupa, dejando secar por varios d\u00edas.
\nPosteriormente se dejan hervir en grandes ollas con cal y ceniza durante 8 hrs. transform\u00e1ndose en un material blando y moldeable. Una vez cocida se enjuaga y deshebra por tiras.
\nLuego, en una mesa se enjabona una a una las tiras, evitando que la fibra se pegue, formando una cuadr\u00edcula del tama\u00f1o del pliego, machacando con piedras se va cerrando y formando el papel. El golpeteo hace que se liberen carbohidratos solubles en agua y almidones. Un vez terminado este proceso, se deja secar al sol, el cual se podr\u00e1 desprender despu\u00e9s de 2 o 3 horas. El resultado es una l\u00e1mina vegetal fibrosa de colores que van del marr\u00f3n oscuro al amarillo paja.
\nLas tiras de papel que creaban nuestros antiguos mayas, pod\u00edan superar los cinco metros de largo. Ellos doblaban las tiras en fuelles creando as\u00ed los c\u00f3dices, donde plasmaban su sabidur\u00eda relacionada con el mundo superior: religi\u00f3n, astronom\u00eda, ciclos agr\u00edcolas, historia y las profec\u00edas.
\nEn el siglo XVI, tras la conquista, los espa\u00f1oles intentaron erradicar la fabricaci\u00f3n de este tipo de papel, aunque fracasaron, eliminaron y quemaron muchos de los c\u00f3dices que exist\u00edan.
\nEn la actualidad, aunque ha habido innovaciones menores, a\u00fan utiliza el mismo proceso b\u00e1sico de creaci\u00f3n utilizado en el periodo prehisp\u00e1nico. Lo puedes encontrar en hermosas piezas artesanales.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amate significa papel en castellano y copo en maya. Los mayas lo utilizaban para c\u00f3dices o libros antiguos y es una tradici\u00f3n autentica de m\u00e1s de 2 mil a\u00f1os. El papel proviene de un \u00e1rbol que se llama \u201cficus omorus\u201d de la familia de las moras. Al \u00e1rbol se le hace una incisi\u00f3n y se […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[8,249,943,944,105,73,836,67,768,501,448,188,649,98,856,945,820,1551,172],"class_list":["post-13849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultura","tag-actividades","tag-agua","tag-amate","tag-ancestros","tag-arbol","tag-ceremonia","tag-codices","tag-cultura","tag-cultura-maya","tag-eco","tag-educacion","tag-eventos","tag-maya","tag-mayas","tag-papel","tag-prehispanica","tag-prehispanico","tag-ritual","tag-selva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}