iquitihualoni (FCbk10f2r)

This iconographic example, featuring a backstrap loom (iquitihualoni or ihquitihualoni), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a woman working the loom. As a weaver, she could be a tlamachchiuhqui or a tlatecoa. The loom is tied on the left end to a column (in European architectural style). The other end, a woven belt (neanoni), goes around her back. She kneels on a woven mat (petlatl). She wears a white blouse (huipilli) with a lower red border. She also wears a loose white cotton petticoat with legs (what the Spaniards called naguas). Her hair is long and pulled back loosely behind her neck. She holds onto a wooden weaving batten (tzotzopaztli), which is slid between some of the warp. A part of the fabric she is weaving is visible at the top of the loom: these are red, green, and yellow flowers with a green border above and below. Above that, at the top of the loom is a horizontal board, providing a firm framework for the fabric.