The Wayuu women learn how to weave since they are little. In fact, they need to weave well as part of their passage from adolescence to womanhood. The teenage girl receives all sort of instructions to become an ideal wife such as how to take care of a home but most importantly how to weave. The Wayuu community have a popular saying that properly summarizes this, "To be a woman is to know how to weave". The better weaver a woman is, the more prestige she will have in her clan.