Located on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera del Balsamo, Panchimalco sits on the remnants of an ancient volcano that formed over 6 million years ago. Ancient lands with fertile volcanic soils and high elevation which engendered dense tropical vegetation, sweltering daytimes, and cooler evenings. The Nahua people of Panchimalco have made this mountain town their home since time and memorial. From fighting off Spanish invaders coming up from San Salvador in the 16th century to ultimately capitulating land privatization with the coffee boom in the late nineteenth century the Nahua people have maintained forms of cultural resistance underneath the nose of the capital city. The matriarch of ancestral tejido (weave-making) in Panchimalco. For more than 40 years, Niña Claudia (as the locals call her) has led an initiative to teach the younger generations traditional Nahua weaving. Niña Claudia’s grandmother passed down the weave-making tradition to her, who was taught by her great-grandmother with the lineage continuing through a matriarchal ancestral line. The tradition lives on through younger generations, with now incorporating both male and female weavers. Through every fiber woven there is a piece of ancestral history and knowledge being interlaced which manifests itself as a cloth, whether for religious purposes or to celebrate life and even death, the weaving passes on as reminder of resilience and visibility.