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A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk threads in tent stitch; edging: silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave; drawstrings; silk, plaited; tassels: silk and gilt-metal-wrapped silk, plaited; lining: silk, plain weave.

Bag, 17th century

A work made of silk and paper, crochet and crochet variations; appliquéd with silk, plain weaves, some printed, dyed, hole-punched, and discharge dyed and appliquéd with silk, ribbon; embroidered with silk; metal wire wrapped with silk; blocked.

The Clearing, 2008

Michael Olszewski

A work made of linen, plain weave embroidered in silk floss in chaing, short, long and brick stitches; original silk fringe.

Bedcover, Late 17th century

Indo-Portuguese

A work made of silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton and silver-leaf-on-adhesive-on-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and bands of weft resist dyed (weft ikat), plain weave.

Skirt Cloth (kain bidak), Early 20th century

Incense Wrapper with Design of Morning Glories

Incense Wrapper with Design of Morning Glories, 18th century

Ogata Korin

A work made of silk, plain weave, with supplementary brocading wefts; sequins with center of coiled metal strips; edging of bobbin lace made with metal strips; ribbons of silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts.

Apron, 1750/1800

A work made of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross and long-armed cross stitches.

Sampler, 1825/75

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross, satin, algerian eye or star stitches, detached buttonhole insertions.

Sampler, 1799

Elizabeth Dudley

A work made of wool, broken twill weave; fulled; embroidered with wool and silk in back, individual back, looped back (cut to form pile), chain, feather, fly, long-armed cross, satin, individual satin, and stem stitches; lined with cotton, plain weave; roller and possibly block printed; glazed.

Bedcover, c. 1849

Rebecca C. Hayward

A work made of hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk.

Zhenwu with the Eight Trigrams, the Northern Dipper, and Talismans, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 17th or early 18th century

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.

Melting the Gold and Predicting the Future, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1901

Yu Guiyan

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

Panel, 1730/33

Style of Jean Revel

A work made of linen, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin, surface satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching and padded couching; edged with silk, plain weave and wool, warp chevron twill weave tapes.

Orphrey Cross, 1475-1525

A work made of silk, weft-float faced twill weave of three-color complementary weft and inner warps.

Two Border Fragments, Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE), 5th/6th century

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

Storchenschnabel (Stork's or Crane's Bill) (Furnishing or Dress Fabric), 1911/17

Dagobert Peche

A work made of silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Fragment, 1325-1375

A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work and pulled threadwork; embroidered with linen yarn in buttonhole, hem, interlocking, loop, overcast, and russian overcast stitches, overcasr bars; embroidered with silk floss and cotton floss in crested chain variations, running and satin stitches.

Sampler, 19th century

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and yarns in algerian eye, buttonhole, chain, half cross, individual back, marking cross, two-sided cross and trammed cross stitches; laid work, couching and french knots.

Sampler, 1704

Lucy Garland

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in algerian eye, buttonhole, cross and marking cross stitches; laid work and couching.

Sampler, 1704

Rebecah Garland

A work made of sisal, wool, linen, rayon, and synthetic fibers, gilt strip wound around a silk core; crossed warp weave with discontinuous wefts (outer circle); plain weave with discontinuous wefts (inner circle).

Golden Colidia, 1971

Agnieska Ruszczynska-Szafranska

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