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xiuhtilmatli.

Headword: 
xiuhtilmatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a turquoise color net cape with turquoise stones knotted into it (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 233.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry
Textiles, Clothing
Turquoise, Greenstone/Jade