Digital Folheto Publisher
Set your verses in hand-press type — justified stanzas, engraved drop caps, margins wide as a market table. Export folhetos made for strings and screens alike.
Vol. 1 — Digital Edition
The Sertão Sings in Pixels
“From woodblock cuts to glowing screens, the poet’s string runs through our dreams.”
Chapter I · What the Press Provides
A Whole Print Shop in Your Pocket
Woodcut Illustration Studio
Carve your own blocks in the browser. Hatch, stamp, and ink in five engraving styles — no knife, no splinters, all of the sertão soul.
The Living Cordel Archive
Ten thousand booklets hang side by side. Follow the string from the old mestres to brand-new voices — then tie your own beside them.
Chapter II · The Craft in Three Stanzas
How a Folheto Is Born
1
Write the Verses
Draft in rhyme or loose meter. Our editor counts syllables like an old mestre and keeps every stanza honest.
2
Cut the Blocks
Choose frames, engravings, and cover art drawn straight from the xylography tradition — carved once, printed forever.
3
Hang It on the String
Publish with one click. Your booklet joins the market line — discoverable, sellable, and sized for pocket or press.
Chapter III · Voices from the Fair
What the Poets Are Singing
Thirty years I sang at country fairs for bread and small change’s share. Now my rhymes sail past the sea — the string grew longer than my dream.
My students cut their first woodcuts with a mouse and swear a mestre taught the house. The ink went digital; the heart stayed analog.
Chapter IV · The Market Stall
Pick Your Place on the String
Wanderer
Read the archive, wander far.
$0 / forever
- Read the full public archive
- Follow up to 10 poets
- Community string boards
Poet
Publish and sell your verse.
$9 / month
- Everything in Wanderer
- Unlimited published folhetos
- Woodcut studio, all five inks
- Sell on the string — keep 85%
Master of Cordel
For those who teach the trade.
$29 / month
- Everything in Poet
- Print-ready A5 exports
- Monthly live workshops with mestres
- Custom frames and fonts
Chapter V · Asked at the Stall
Frequently Sung Questions
What exactly is cordel?
Cordel is Brazilian folk literature: small rhymed booklets, illustrated with woodcuts and sold hung on strings — cordéis — at market stalls across the sertão. We kept the string; only the stall moved online.
Do I need to speak Portuguese?
Not at all. The workshop speaks English and welcomes every language. Portuguese rhyme is honored and preserved, but your verses may sing in any tongue — the meter tool follows wherever your stanza leads.
Can I print my booklets?
Yes. Poets export e-folhetos for the digital string, and Masters unlock print-ready PDFs with crop marks, sized for the traditional A5 hand-press binding — paper, string, and all.
The Last Stanza
Hang Your Story on the String
One verse is all it takes to begin. Join the poets already singing.