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

Woman's Robe, 1840/60

A work made of leather binding; covers of velvet, embroidered with chenille and metal thread.

Notebook, 19th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed.

The Inauguration of The Port of Cherbourg by Louis XVI (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1787

Jean Baptiste Huet

A work made of wool, single interlocking tapestry weave; twined edges; corner tassels.

Chief Blanket (Third Phase), c. 1860/65

Navajo (Diné)

A work made of plain simple cloth.

Fragment, Fatimid period (969–1171)

Islamic

A work made of cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed; linen fringe.

Birth of Venus (Furnishing Fabric), 1800/05

Charles-Joseph Natoire

A work made of steel, iron, gilding, wood (ash), silk, and silk textile.

Halberd for the Bodyguard of Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, 1632

A work made of silk, 2:1 twill weave, with complementary weft plain weave double cloth.

Panel (Dress Fabric), 17th century, Safavid Dynasty (1501–1722)

A work made of silk, irregular interlacing plain weave variation; pairs of larger diameter warp inserted between warp groups; screen printed.

Scarf, 1965

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of wool and cotton: slit tapestry weave; embroidered with wool and cotton in heavy chain, herring bone, interlacing and stem stitches; main warp cut fringe, twined and wrapped; added wrapped cut fringe and leather binding stitched with hemp.

Man's Cape (Akhnif), Mid–19th century

Ait Ouaouzguite Confederation

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

Caesar's Death Makes Cleopatra Mourn from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra, c. 1680

Geraert Peemans

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

Albatrossi (Albatross) (Furnishing Fabric), 1967

Maija Isola

A work made of linen, plain gauze weave; embroidered with silk floss and linen in double running, stem, weaving, and buttonhole stitches; applied silk tassels at each corner.

Sampler, 17th century

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

The Feast [central part], from The Story of Artemisia, 1607/30

Antoine Caron

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

The Crossing of the Granicus, from The Story of Alexander the Great, 1619

Karel van Mander, II

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

Poleaxe, 1500/10

A work made of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet.

Fragment, 1501/50

A work made of a: cotton and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip-wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie), bands of plain weave; knotted main warp fringe b: cotton, bast fiber (probably ramie), and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip-wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie) bands of plain weave, weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave and weft-faced plain weave; knotted main warp fringe c: cotton, silk, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie), bands of plain weave, main warp fringe.

Ceremonial Textiles, 19th century

A work made of rayon and silk, plain weave; screen printed.

Panel (Design No. 104), 1955

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of cotton, plain weave; cutwork embroidered with wool in overcast stitch; embroidered with silk and wool in cross, long-armed cross, outline, satin and stem stitches.

Sampler, 1852

Eliza Ryan

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