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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 linen, plain weave; block printed.

Frucht Korb (Fruit Basket) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1920/27

Elisabeth Raab

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

L'Agréable leçon (The Pleasant Lesson) (Furnishing Fabric), 1788

Petitpierre Frères & Cie.

Quilt made of many small, multicolored scraps of fabric arranged organically, with a thick black border.

Altered or Unfinished 'Crazy Quilt', 1883

Phyllis Rothschild

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.

Mosaic or Honeycomb Quilt, 1875/80

A work made of ink, on paper; screen printed.

Wallpaper and Textile Design, c. 1922

Dagobert Peche

A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Fragment, 1425-1475

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

Cotswold (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1950

John Piper

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

Handkerchief, c. 1876

John Trumbull

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross stitches.

Sampler, Early/mid–19th century

A work made of graphite and paint, on paper; painted.

Design for a Textile or Wallpaper, c. 1921

Wilhelm Lichtmann

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in closed herringbone, satin, stem, and twined double running stitches.

Cushion Cover, 18th century

A work made of raffia fiber.

Boy's Cap, 19th–early 20th century

Kongo

A work made of silk, satin weave with self-patterning ground wefts bound by main warps in twill interlacings.

La Cour de Chine, c. 1918/24

Raoul Dufy

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

Handkerchief, 1860/1900

Celestin Nanteuil

A work made of wool, plain weave; tied and free double cloth.

Landis II (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1970

Richard Landis

A brightly colored printed fabric shows the repeating image of a barn and white house surrounded by trees and foliage in shades of green, yellow, brown, and purple. Farm animals, including cows and horses, are seen throughout, as are numerous human figures.

Childhood Home (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1952

Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses)

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

La Marchande d'Amour (The Merchant of Love) (Furnishing Fabric), 1815/17

Louis Hippolyte LaBas

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk floss and yarns, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, gilt metal purl and cardboard in brick, overcast, running, satin, and split stitches; couching, padded couching and laid work; french knots, braided pom pons and seed pearls; in tortoise-shell frame.

Mirror Showing King Charles II, Queen Catherine of Braganza, and Scenes from the Old Testament, c. 1665

A work made of wool, dovetail and single interlocking tapestry weave; edges finished with three strand weft twining with four knotted corner tassels.

Rainbow People Have Arrived (Nááts’íílid Bee Yikáh), About 1925

Hastiin Tła

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