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A work made of opaque watercolor over graphite on paper prepared with opaque watercolor.

Design for Printed Textile, 1929/34

Fredrica Justina Staack

A work made of fabis: cotton, plain weave; sandals: wrapped and braided straw.

Waraji or Zori and Tabi Socks, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926), 1875/1925

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

Aurora (Furnishing Fabric), 1961

Larsen Design Studio

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 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 work made of paper; printed.

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

Johann Michael Kirschbaum

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped fiber, and linen in chain and seed stitches.

Bodice, 16th century

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

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

Raoul Dufy

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

Children at Play (Furnishing Fabric), 1886/90

Merrimack Manufacturing Company

A work.

Kesa, Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th/early 19th century

A work made of wool, linen, cotton, and silk, plain weave with discontinuous weft open warp areas; knotted warp fringe; feathers.

Yellows, 1958

Lenore Tawney

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

A work made of wool and linen, plain weave with supplementary warps forming cut pile; ten strips joined.

Carpet, 18th century

A work made of silk and linen, plain weave; screen printed and possibly hand painted.

Wiener Werkstätte Neustiftfasse 32 (Sample Book) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), c. 1910

Martha Alber

A work.

Fragment, 17th century

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 6 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of six z-spun elements; ; diameters: 0.8–1.0 mm weft: count: varies from 26 to 60 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.2–1.0 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters; 0.25–0.7 mm.

February, before 1528

Circle of Bernard van Orley

Handkerchief

Handkerchief, 1875-1900

Oriental Print Works

A work made of cotton, plain weave; block printed and copperplate printed; total of swatches: 2390.

Copy of the Goods of Montpellier, 1810

A work made of jute and wool, square knotted with cascading ends and wool pile.

Black Tuesday, 1968

Claire Zeisler

A work made of ink, colors, and gold on silk.

Kasuga Deer Mandala, 15th century

Mandara Shika

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