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tlamacho.

Headword: 
tlamacho.
Principal English Translation: 

a cloth that has been worked (such as an embroidery?) (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlamacho. manta labrada, o lienzo con labores.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 125r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

nicmaCatiuh y noxhuiuhtzi ytoCa mechiora de los reYes nicmaCatiuh Centetl huipili tlamacho ystac yhuan centetl metlatl = I am giving my grandchild named Melchora de los Reyes a white embroidered huipil and a metate (1673, Mexico City)
Jonathan Truitt, Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523–1700 (Oceanside, CA: The Academy of American Franciscan History; Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), 249, 253.

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing