Alix Gabriel Fuentes-Arias, Juan Guillermo Popayán-Hernández
This research analyses, from a decolonial ecofeminist perspective, the production of Kankuama bags as a practice of resistance that intertwines care economies and cosmogonic meanings. Using a mixed-method approach—surveys of 94 weavers, iconographic analysis of 147 bags, and discourse analysis with ATLAS.ti—it was found that commercial intermediation reduces their income by up to 40 %, devaluing a knowledge system where designs materialize thought and sacred territory. The results demonstrate that weaving is a feminized economy underpinning cultural reproduction, yet it faces a contradiction between its integral value and its market price. It is concluded that fair trade mechanisms recognizing the cultural and spiritual value of the textile work are essential for community autonomy.