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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 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

Bird Searching for the Cliffs

Bird Searching for the Cliffs, 1944

Morris Graves

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

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 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

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 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 and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk; weft-faced four-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps and areas of detached plain interlacing of inner warps with complementary ground wefts.

Fragment from the Dalmatic of San Valero, 13th century

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 linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk threads, design raised over cords, backstitched and background covered with backstitch filling in manner of quilting.

Woman's Waistcoat, 1701/25

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.

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

A work made of silk, plain weave; patterned with resist dyeing, impressed gold leaf, and embroidered with silk in satin, single satin, surface satin and stem stitches; couching; lined with silk, plain weave; center back panels of silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave.

Nuihaku (Noh Costume), Momoyama period (1568–1615), 16th century

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

Sampler, 1651

Mary Bidgood

A work made of silk tapestry (kesi).

Wrathful Form of the Goddess Saraswati (Magzor Gyalmo) or Palden Llamo, 20th century

A work made of linen and silk, complementary weft twill weave with inner warps.

Fragments with Roundel and Stripe Pattern, 13th-14th century

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