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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 linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool and silk in cross stitches.

Family Record, c. 1819

Harriot A. Raymond

Robe with vertical bands of yellow, blue, and red abstract designs.

Woman's Robe, 1840/60

A work made of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk and rayon in back and cross stitches; beaded with glass beads.

Sampler, 1841

A work made of silk, satin damask weave; woven on a loom with a drawloom attachment fabricated by the artist.

Panel, 1982

Ethel Stein

A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary brocading wefts tied by secondary binding warps in twill interlacings.

Fragment (From an Orphrey Band), 1450-1500

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 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

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 supplementary brocading wefts.

Panel, 1730/33

Style of Jean Revel

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 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 hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk.

A Beauty Behind a Screen, About 1750

Miyagawa Chôshun

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

Yang Guifei, 1789-92

Katsukawa Shunsho

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 linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool and silk in tent stitches.

Harvesting, 1701/25

A work made of silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and yarns, chenille yarns, and silk, plain weave ribbons; embroidered in chain, individual running, satin, padded satin, single satin, split, and stem stitches; french knots, laidwork, couching.

Sampler, 18th century

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