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A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back, double running, hem, and running stitches; cut fringe: warp and cut embroidered fringe.

Border, 17th century

A work made of hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper.

Dancer with a Maple Branch, About 1780-90

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in algerian eye, buttonhole, cross, rice, rococo, satin, stem and tent stitches.

Sampler (Needlework), 1820

Rebecca Ann Dod

A work made of linen, plain weave; with bands of cut and drawn thread work in back, buttonhole, darning, double hem, interlocking lace, overcast, and needle lace filling stitches; bands of linen, needle lace; and bands embroidered with silk in algerian eye, antwerp edge, back, cross, double hem, double running, long-armed cross, two-sided italian cross, satin, squared ground, and a variety of buttonhole stitches.

Sampler, 1688

Mercy Mackett

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet.

Chasuble (Fron only), 15th century

A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work embroidered with silk floss in algerian eye, back, buttonhole, coral, cross, detached chain, feather, hem, herringbone, interlocking lace, knotted back, knotted insertion, long-armed cross, overcast, roman, running (pattern darning), russian overcast, satin, square open work, and wave stitches; darned, open buttonholed, overcast, and zig-zag overcast bars; darned and satin squares; darned and woven wheels; french knots; beaded with glass and metal beads; edged with 2/2 silk, twill weave tape.

Sampler, 1825/75

A work made of cotton and rayon, plain weave; silk screen printed.

Panel (Design 103), 1955

Frank Lloyd Wright

Half circle of fabric, embroidered with Virgin Mary, saints, prophets, and plant motif.

Cope, 1490/1517, with later restoration

A work made of silk, stencil-printed warp and weft (heiyo kasuri) plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave.

Kimono, 1920s/30s, Taishô period (1912–1926) /Shôwa period (1926–1989)

Painted portrait of the upper torso and head of a man with medium skin, a red cloth covering his head and shoulders, an exposed chest, and light facial hair. The background is a neutral tone and the figure takes up only the bottom half of the tall, bordered, rectangular scroll.

Daruma, c. 1550

A work made of silk, plain weave; embroidered.

Band, 19th century

A work made of silk, twill weave; screen printed.

Scarf, 1970

Paul Rebeyrolle

A work made of silk, satin weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal-strips in crossed back, running, satin, and split stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; beaded with coral beads; edged with woven tapes.

Cope, 1601/75

A work made of cotton, wool, rayon, acrylic, acetate, linen, silk and polyolefin, warp-dyed complementary warp, twill and mix-float weaves with discontinuous wefts.

Approaching Change, 1997

Cynthia Schira

A work made of silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps.

Panel, 1752

Anna Maria Garthwaite

A work made of silk, plain weave; screen printed.

Flying Buttresses, 1935

Walter Dorwin Teague

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk.

Border, Early 17th century

A work made of silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts.

"The Present Time", After 1879

Thomas Stevens

A work made of silk and cotton, 7:1 warp-float faced satin weave with 1:2 'z' twill interlacing of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Kelty, 1922

W. J. Coombes

A work made of silk, twill weave; screen printed.

Scarf, 1972

Pablo Palazuelo

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