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A work made of wooden box; covered with silk, satin weave; appliquéd with silk and linen, plain weaves and twill plaited tapes; embroidered with silk, metal threads, and linen in a variety of stitches; laid work, buttonhole couching, couching, and french knots; mica and pearls; edged with woven tape; silver feet.

Dressing Box Depicting the Finding of Moses and Scenes from Abraham and Hagar, Third quarter of the 17th century

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 pieced and embroidered quilt; dyed and undyed cotton satin and plain weave fabrics; cotton embroidery threads.

Quilt, c. 1930

Belle Wright

A work made of cotton, rayon, and polyester, six-color complementary warp and four-color complementary weft plain weave double cloth, self-patterned by areas of warp floats.

Circa 1926 Serious (Furnishing Fabric), 1991

Rob Rose

A work made of wool and cotton, plain weave with patterning warps.

Belt (Chumpi), Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Quechua

A work.

Fragment

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 raffia fiber.

Boy's Cap, 19th–early 20th century

Kongo

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

Stones of Bath (Furnishing Fabric), 1962

John Piper

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 linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and wool in tent stitches.

Panel (From a Settee), 1745/55

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

Panel, 1675/1727

Style of Daniel Marot, the Elder

A work.

Fragment, 1000-1476

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, 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 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 calabash.

Cocoa Tree-Shaped Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

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 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

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