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Aztec clothing illustrated, v2

21st Mar 2020

Illustrated guide to Aztec clothing (v2) by Daniel Parada

We’re sincerely grateful to Daniel Parada for producing specially for us this beautiful new illustrated guide to Aztec clothing styles (updated, March 2020!), showing in simple terms the range of styles for both adults and children. A free copy of this resource will be given to each school that our teaching team visits...

Read the intriguing background to Daniel’s work in our ‘Aztec Inspiration’ section - follow the link below (to follow).

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Comments (2)

Taytay

13th May 2023

Thank you!

Mexicolore

You’re welcome...

Taytay

10th May 2023

Hello! I was wondering what the symbolism of the net cape was, and in what settings it was worn and by who?

Mexicolore

There’s a lovely example of a knotted cape worn by the head teacher of the telpochcalli commoners’ school in Book 3 of the Florentine Codex. Its name in Nahuatl was/is cuechintli and it’s also mentioned in Book 2 of the Codex: Sahagún describes the impersonator of Tezcatlipoca in the festival of Toxcatl ‘And he went putting on only his net cape like a fish net of wide mesh with a fringe’.

Illustrated guide to Aztec clothing (v2) by Daniel Parada