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White silk kimono with stenciled yellow flowers and turquoise stems.

Summer Kimono (Hitoe), About 1900–1916

A work made of silk, plain gauze weave; embroidered with linen in darning stitches (lacis).

Border, 1601/50

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and wool in tent stitches.

Panel (From a Settee), 1745/55

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

Commemorative Bookmark "A Tribute of Affection", 19th century

Thomas Stevens

A work made of silk, satin weave with brocading wefts and secondary binding warps tying some ground wefts in plain interlacing.

Panel, c. 1736

Style of Jean Revel

A work made of earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes and traces of polychrome pigments.

Seated Woman Holding Mirror, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), first half of 8th century

Eight ink still life drawings of stacked bookcases.

Chaekgeori, late 19th -early 20th century

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; patterned with impressed gold leaf; lined with silk, plain weave; dyed with beni, safflower.

Surihaku (Noh Costume), Edo period (1615–1868), 1775/1825

A work made of silk, bobbin straight lace (made in horizontal strips).

Bonnet Veil, 1850s

A work made of cotton, silk, polyester window covering, upholstery.

I Morosi Alla Finestra, 2002

Gio Ponti

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

Sampler, 17th century

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

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1924

Léon Bakst

A work made of silk, twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary binding warps.

Narrow Strip, 15th century

Islamic

A work made of persian silk piece. light silk; small flower spray.

Fragment (Dress Fabric), 18th/19th century

A work made of earthenware with polychrome pigments.

Female Musician, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), late 7th/early 8th century

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

Sampler, 1814

A work made of steel, wood, silk, and brass.

Bill (Ronca), 16th century

A work made of five panels joined: three panels of stripes of silk and cotton, warp resist dyed (warp ikat) plain weave (paired warps), stripes of warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and one stripe of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, double running, stem and surface satin stitches and two panels of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, stem and surface satin stitches.

Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (tapis), 18th century (?)

Paminggir

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk, peacock-feather-wrapped silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper in surface satin stitches; laid work and couching; appliquéd with forms of silk, plain weaves between two layers of paper, some with gold- and silver-leaf-over-lacquered paper, and embroidered with silk in chain and knot stitches, needle looping with laid thread and darned bars, and silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laid work and couching; edged with cotton, plain weave; lined with ramie, plain weave; metal button.

Vestment for a First-Degree Taoist Priest, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th century; inscribed 1793

Han-Chinese

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 's' twill interlacings and with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet.

Cope, 1460-1470

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