In February 2004 with the help of the Canadian cooperation, the school of Kal Tunal weavers was found. Kal Tunal means “house of Sun” in Nahuatl Pipil language.
Kal Tunal has been found by the Institute for the Revival of Ancestral Salvadorian Indigenous Knowledge (RAIS).
RAIS is a non-governmental organization, apolitical and non-lucrative. RAIS was found in 1981 in order to actualize and apply ancestral knowledge. Its work is based on the conservation of philosophy and historic memory that we inherited from indigenous people.
The Kal Tunal School is the first one in the country which transmits, within its theory and practice, the traditional indigenous techniques of weaving, in order for students to acquire a good technique to become a weaver.
The artisans formed to the weaving come from communities in the departments of San Salvador and La Paz .