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A work made of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts in 3:1 and 2:2 twill interlacings.

Panel (Dress Fabric), c. 1711

A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work; embroidered with cotton in antique hem stitches; edged with linen, bobbin straight lace.

Cover, Second half of 18th/early 19th century

A work made of linen, bobbin part lace (continuous clothwork tapes).

Two Borders, c. 1700

A work made of silk, linen, and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, weft-faced three-color complementary weft twill weave with inner warps.

Fragment, 13th/14th century

A work made of linen and wool, slit tapestry weave.

Border, Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.), 5th/6th century

A work made of watercolor and gouache, with touches of graphite and charcoal, on tan wove paper, prepared with a gray wash.

On the Loire, 1924

Arthur B. Davies

A work made of linen, bobbin part lace made in sections; cloth work tapes.

Fragments (From a Border), 1601/25

A work made of linen and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming uncut loop pile and insets of slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric and supplementary wrapping weft details.

Fragment, Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.), 5th/6th century

Coptic

A work made of drypoint on cream laid paper.

River Scene with Boat (Small plate), 1880

Henri-Emile Lessore

A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

The Extraordinary Phenomenon of the Popular Otsu Picture (Tokini otsue kidai no maremono), 1848

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

A work made of linen, bobbin part lace; continuous clothwork tapes.

Border, Early 18th century

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Mount Nachi in Kii Province, No. 1 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei ichiban Kishu Nachisan), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)", 1858

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of porcelain painted in underglaze blue.

Circular Box with a Scene from the Story of the Western Wing, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

A work made of linen, three bands of needle lace; upper band worked on a plain weave cut and drawn thread work grid; embroidered in double hem stitches; later edging of bobbin straight lace.

Collar (Made from Border), 1601/25

A work made of fritware, with carved and molded decoration under a turquoise glaze.

Ceramic Architectural Decoration, 13th century

Islamic

A work made of linen and wool, slit tapestry weave.

Square, Arab period (641–969)/Fatimid period (969–1171), 9th/10th century

Coptic

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 2:1 's' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 's' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; painted details.

Thanka (Religious Picture), 18th century, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Manchu

A work made of silk and gilt-metal-strip wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warps in weft-float faced 1:4 'z' twill interlacings and supplementary pile warps forming cut, voided velvet.

Panel, 1425/75

A work made of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced satin weave with weft-float faced twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts.

Fragment, 16th century

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered.

Fragment, Mamluk period (1250–1517), 15th century

Islamic

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