tlamachchiuhqui (FCbk10f7v)

tlamachchiuhqui (FCbk10f7v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a woman who is a weaver of designs (tlamachchiuhqui), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making possible comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a woman weaving with a back strap (neanoni) loom (iquitihualoni or ihquitihualoni). She has her hands on the weaving batten (tzotzopaztli). In this case, the design (tlacuilolli) at the top of her loom has a red background with small black circles. She kneels on a yellow woven mat (petlatl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This collection includes examples of the weaving batten, which in one case was raised as a weapon (below). More common are examples of clothing or pieces of cloth, which women made on their looms. None of these have particularly elaborate designs, but the huipilli and the tilmatli could be very fancy pieces.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (female)

Occupations

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Wood, wooden things

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing left

profile view

tied, bound, or bundled

woven

Keywords:

tejer, telar, coser, bordar, mujeres, diseño, tecnología, madera, sogas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlamachchiuqui, a weaver of designs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamachchiuhqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la tejedora de diseños

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 7v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/7v/images/0 Accessed 2 September 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”