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A work made of silk, compound weave; brocaded; gilt galloon; gilt buttons with silk cord loops.

Sarafan (Gala Costume), 18th century

A work made of silk, satin weave with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut velvet.

Panel (Hanging), 2007

Rahul Jain

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in knot, single satin, satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; ribbons: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; trimmed with silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; waistband: cotton, plain weave; lined with silk, plain weave.

Woman's Qun (Semiformal Domestic Skirt), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1870/90

Han-Chinese

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts tied by secondary binding warps in plain interlacings.

Fragment, Mamluk period (1250–1517), 14th/ 15th century

Islamic

A work made of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet.

Portion of a Chasuble, 1450/1500

A work made of silk (crepe fiber warp), plain weave; screen printed.

Scarf, 1976

Claude Garache

A work made of wool and silk, weft-float faced 1:3 'z' twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'z' twill interlacings; main warp fringe; woven on loom with jacquard attachment.

Long Shawl, 1825/75

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in knot, satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; lined with silk, plain weave.

Buzi (Court Rank Badge), 1825/50, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Manchu

A work made of silk, plain weave; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain, individual back, running, and stem stitches; spangles; edged with silk, warp-faced cut weft fringe; lined with silk, plain weave.

Chasuble, 17th century

A work made of book with fifteen woodcuts with letterpress in black on cream laid paper, in eighteenth-century full brown sheepskin, sewn on raised bands, with gold tooled decoration on inner-edges of boards, blind lines and gold titling on the spine, hand-sewn silk headbands, marbled endsheets, and a purple silk page marker.

The Apostles' Creed (Das Symbolum der Heiligen Aposteln), 1548

Lucas Cranach the Elder

A work made of bronze.

Suspension Bell (Bo) 东周时期青铜镈, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 B.C.), first half of 5th century B.C.

Bird Searching for the Cliffs

Bird Searching for the Cliffs, 1944

Morris Graves

A work made of silk, satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces; applied rhinestones.

Diva (Furnishing Fabric), 1985

Gretchen Bellinger

A work made of silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in twill interlacings and plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and ground wefts.

Panel, 1733/35

Style of Jean Revel

A work made of two panels joined: bands of cotton, silk, gold-and silver- leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; bands of cotton, silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; bands of cotton and silk, weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave; bands of cotton and silk, weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and bands of cotton, silk, gold- leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave.

Shoulder or Skirt Cloth (kain bidak), around 1900

Cover of Album of Paintings and Calligraphy by Famous Masters in Fan Form

Cover of Album of Paintings and Calligraphy by Famous Masters in Fan Form, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1882–1890

Pu Hua

A work made of silk and silver gilt strip wound around a silk fiber core, warp-float faced satin weave, self-patterned by ground weft bound in plain interlacing; watered (moiré).

Panel (Dress Fabric), c. 1930s

Bianchini Férier

A work made of wool, silk, and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk; slit and double interlocking tapestry weave with some areas of 2 : 2 plain interlacing of silvered-metal wefts warp: count: 10 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of four z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.9 mm weft: count: varies from 19 to 42 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.3–0.8 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm; silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk: silvered-metal strip wrapped in an s-direction on s-ply of two yarns of z-ply of two slightly z-twisted silk elements; pairs of yarns of silvered-metal strip wrapped in an s-direction on s-ply of two yarns of z-ply of two slightly z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm.

September and October [fragment] from The Twelve Months of the Year, After 1675

Workshop of Gerard Peemans

A work made of silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk in satin, single satin, and stem stitches; attached painted ivory faces; edged with silk, oblique interlacing with wrapped, knotted, cut fringe.

Shawl, c. 1890

A work made of silk, plain weave; applied feathers; card(?) structure; lining: cotton, knit.

KFB - 105, 1992

Kazimiera Frymark-Blaszczyk

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