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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, 1000-1476

A work made of raffia fiber.

Boy's Cap, 19th–early 20th century

Kongo

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 cotton, plain weave; resist printed and painted.

Panel, 1675/1727

Style of Daniel Marot, the Elder

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

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 chasuble: silk and metal-wrapped thread, brocaded silk velvet with two heights of silk pile, and metal-wrapped threat boucle. orphrey cross: silk and metal-wrapped thread, embroidered in flat and padded couching stitches and split stitches on linen plain weave foundation..

Chasuble Front with Orphrey Cross, Chasuble: 15th century; Orphrey Cross: 1401/50

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 9 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–0.9 mm. weft: count: varies from 22 to 37 wefts per cm; wool: s ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm; silk: pairs and three yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–0.9 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of s-ply of two z-spun wool elements and s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.6–1.0 mm.

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

Workshop of Willem van Leefdael

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 silk, in a variety of weaves including cut velvet weave; pieced; embroidered in silk threads in a variety of stitches; backed with cotton, plain weave; lined with silk, satin weave.

Square from a 'Crazy Quilt', c. 1884

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 8 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: o.6–0.8 mm weft: count: varies from 18 to 42 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.2 mm; silk: pairs and three yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.7–1.2 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of s-ply of two z-spun wool elements and s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.8–1.2 mm.

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

Workshop of Willem 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

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

La Chasse (The Hunt), c. 1919/20

Raoul Dufy

A work made of three panels joined: top panel: stripes of cotton, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave patterned with cotton and silk supplementary weft wrapping, songket, and of cotton, warp resist dyed (warp ikat), warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave; center panel: stripes of cotton, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave, and of warp resist dyed (warp ikat), warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave; bottom panel: stripes of cotton and rayon, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave, and of cotton warp resist dyed (warp ikat), warp-faced weft ribbed plain weave.

Textile, 20th century

A work made of cut paper design, mounted on paper with glue.

Textile Design, c. 1915

k. und k. Kunststickereischule

A work made of paper; printed.

Neues Bild-und Musterbuch (New Picture and Sample Book), 1771

Johann Michael Kirschbaum

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 6 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–1.0 mm weft: count: varies from 16 to 32 wefts per cm; wool: pairs of s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.6–1.2 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.7–1.0 mm.

Pygmalion from Stories from Ovid, c. 1675

Wauters Workshop

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