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Large panel of fabric covered in West African text, grid patterns, and squares of animal hide.

Talismanic Textile, Late 19th/early 20th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave; photo-screen printed; glazed.

World's Fair, 1939

Seneca Textile Corporation

A work made of silver gilt, rock crystal, textile, and human remains.

Reliquary Monstrance with a Tooth of Saint John the Baptist, 1433; container: 900/1200

Weddeghe Velstede

Bordered textile depicting a festive scene on a gold background in yellow, red, green, and blue. Three poled structures linked by garland arches dominate the scene. At center, a person rides an elephant, a while at right, two people dance near a seated leopard. Two others dance at left.

The Elephant, from The Berain Grotesques Series, c. 1688/1732

Jean Baptiste Monnoyer

A portrait of a young man with dark hair and beard painted on an irregular piece of wood. The background is gold as a wreath of ivy and necklace he wears. There are many areas where the paint has come off the surface.

Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath, Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century

Ancient Egyptian

A work.

Tassels, 500-900

Nasca

A work made of silk, fancy simple satin weave.

Fragment, 16th century

A work made of paper.

Design for Printed Textile, 1929/34

Fredrica Justina Staack

Textile with a cream-colored floral motif on red fabric, vines arranged in repeating diamond shapes, a large flourish or blossom within each one.

Panel, 16th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave; open work; screen printed.

Smokestacks (Furnishing Fabric), 1930

Sergi Petrovich Burylin

A work made of steel, iron, brass, leather, and textile.

Field Armor for Man, c. 1520

Long, thin piece of fabric featuring a border design in reddish brown of an undulating vine with curled tendrils and three-petaled blossoms.

Fragment (Border), Greco–Roman period (30 BCE–641 CE), 4th/5th century

Coptic

A work made of steel, iron, copper, textile, and leather.

Basket-Hilted Broadsword, about 1750

Walter Allan

A work made of lime (linden) wood, beeswax, pigments, gold, textile, and natural resin.

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Laurel Wreath, Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century

Ancient Egyptian

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

Fragment, Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1988

Tatsumura Textile Company Ltd.

Tapestry with paisley design throughout in reds, purples, blues, and beiges, with fringe on top and bottom.

Shawl Border Fragment, 1815/20

A work made of linen, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, linen and silk in knot, overcast, satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and hemp, padded couching.

Orphrey Band, 1375/1400

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 7 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.9 mm weft: count: varies from 17 to 30 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.2 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.5–1.2. mm.

Venus and Adonis (?) with the Duck Hunt, c. 1600

Jacques Geubels, I

A work.

Fragment

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

Apollo Exposing Mars and Venus to the Ridicule of the Olympians, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, c. 1650

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