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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 hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.

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

Yu Guiyan

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

Woman's Robe, 1840/60

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

Sampler, 1825/75

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

Panel, 1730/33

Style of Jean Revel

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; 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; 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 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 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 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

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 with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Fragment, 1325-1375

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

A work made of cotton, nylon, polyester and wild silk, plain weaves, some printed; pieced; edged and backed with cotton, plain weave; cotton quilting knots.

Crib Quilt, c. 1950s

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