We are a Greek/French team united by the love for sericulture

and the common desire to produce beautiful and sustainable

silk in Greece

Our Team

  • Anne Garcin

    Co-Founder of MetaXana

    Based in Athens, Greece, Anne co-founded in 2014 the Association "La Soie des Hellenes”, the inital vehicule which started the silk project in Greece. She later, co-founded metaxana.com and today, coordinates its activities.

  • Shafi Qias

    Designer​ and Co-Founder

    Shafi is a talented Tadjik designer who lives in Athens. Passionate about fashion, she dedicates her free time to create her collections. Her work as well as her great personality have earned her, a promising interest from the Greek fashion industry. She is doing the finishings of our scarves.

  • Ioannis Lagos

    Economist and Co-Founder

    Ioannis is an economist, founding and senior partner of the I. Lagos & Partners Tax & Accounting Firm. He is also the initiator of the Menalon Trail, a 75 km trail around Arcadia, in the Peloponnese, one of the best rated in Europe. Ioannis shares with us his solid knowledge on environmental protection, and social economy.

  • Angeliki Kridera

    Graphic Designer

    Angeliki specialises in graphic artworks. She knows about techniques but creates with her heart. We love her tasteful designs

Our Soufli Team

Our agronomist Babis and a family of sericulturists from Soufli, put their talent, experience and passion in this adventure.

They cultivate silkworms in spring and spin cocoons in winter.

  • Pagona Manavis

    Sericulturist and Co-Founder

    Pagona is a professional nurse who treats our silkworm with remarkable patience and caring attention. She calls them "her children". With her humor and positive character, Pagona remains calm in hectic situations, and always brings harmony in the rearing house.

  • Elias Manavis

    Sericulturist and Co-Founder

    Elias is a true character. He saw his first silkworm when he was a child. He later developed a real passion for sericulture that makes him start each rearing season with the same excitement. Elias knows well his silkworms, understands instinctively their needs and cultivates them with mastery. He has a special tenderness for baby silkworms.

  • Paschalis Bradouskas

    Sericulturist and Co-Founder

    Paschalis has an ingenious mind that gives him the capacity to understand and fix any practical issue, specially related to machines and equipment. He has a natural curiosity for anything new, that can improve our activity. We owe him many inventions in the rearing house. He is the man that lets actions do the talk. And he ensures that everything works as expected so as to render the best possible results for the silk production.