Principal English Translation:
a weaver of designs; or, an embroiderer
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 51.
Attestations from sources in English:
in tlamachchiuhqui: ca icpatl quimauiltiani, icpachiuhqui. = The weaver of designs is one who concerns herself with using thread, who works with thread. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 51.
tlatecoa, tlamachchiuhqui tultecatl = a skilled weaver, a weaver of designs, an artisan
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 Accessed 2 September 2025.