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A work made of linen, plain weave; beaded with glass beads; backed with cardboard; lined with silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts.

Basket Insert, 1662

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

Stones of Bath (Furnishing Fabric), 1962

John Piper

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

A Panel from a Porticoes Series, 1775/1800

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

A work made of cotton and linen, twill weave; embroidered with wool yarns in satin, chain, bohkara couching (or laid oriental couching), buttonhole, speckling, outline, stem, stroke, coral, rococo, fishbone, slanted stem, chain, link powdering, running, and plain stitches; pattern couching; fillings made with detached buttonhole, basket, roumanian, double knot and rope stitches; french knots.

Panel, 17th century

A work.

Fragment, A.D. 1000/1476

A work made of wool, cotton, and silk, plain, twill, and satin weaves; some with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; some self-patterned; some warp dyed; and some printed; pieced; backed with wool, plain weave; printed; cotton batting.

Bedcover (Mosaic or Honeycomb Quilt), 1875/80

A work made of cotton, plain weave; resist printed and painted.

Panel, 1675/1727

Style of Daniel Marot, the Elder

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and wool in tent stitches.

Panel (From a Settee), 1745/55

A work made of silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps, patterning wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; woven on loom with jacquard attachment.

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752–1834), 1839

Claude Bonnefond

A work made of appliquéd and embroidered quilt; dyed cotton plain weave fabrics; cotton embroidery threads.

The Settling of the West, March 1931/September 1932

Mildred Jacobs Chappell

Papers with Japanese text hang from a tree bearing red and gold leaves.

Flowering Cherry and Autumn Maples with Poem Slips, 1654/81

Tosa Mitsuoki

A work made of pieced and embroidered “crazy” quilt top; dyed and printed silk, cotton, wool and metallic, plain, twill, satin, velvet and patterned weave fabrics and ribbons; silk, metallic and cotton embroidery threads.

John L. Sullivan Quilt, c. 1890

A work made of wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "turkish" (ghiordes) knots.

Carpet, 1875–1900

A work made of silk, cotton, and gilded paper strip, twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound with secondary binding warps in twill interlacings.

Fragment, Edo period (1615–1868), 1775/1800

A work made of rayon, cotton, and mohair, twill weave; screen printed.

Aurora (Furnishing Fabric), 1961

Larsen Design Studio

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

The Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra, c. 1680

Geraert Peemans

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

Arming Sword, 1520/30

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

Caesar Sends a Messenger to Cleopatra from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra, c. 1680

Guilliam van Leefdael

A tan linen with a blue geometric border. Inside the border, from the top down, are rows of alphabetical letters, each letter repeated; a row of numbers, a row of letters, and spotty text reading, "No radiant pearl which crested . . . for other's woes . . . Finally, there is a row with the artist's name, "Mary Ann Hollis," and date, "1820."

Sampler, 1820

Mary Ann Hollis

A work made of cotton, plain weave; block and engraved roller printed.

Children at Play (Furnishing Fabric), 1886/90

Merrimack Manufacturing Company

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