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

Apollo Exposing Mars and Venus to the Ridicule of the Olympians, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, c. 1650

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

World's Fair, 1939

Seneca Textile Corporation

A work made of silk, plain weave (creped wefts); screen printed.

Sprinting Figures (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1928/32

Great Ivanovo-Voznesensk Textile Mill

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

Tractor (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1930

Sergi Petrovich Burylin

A work made of steel, brass, gilding, leather, and silk velvet textile.

Portions of a Field Armor, c. 1588

Jacob Halder

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

Fragment (Abstracted) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1927/30

Sosnev Amalgamated Textile Mills

A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in (weft-float faced 1:3) twill interlacings (on reverse face secondary binding warps and supplementary wefts form detached interlacing).

Fragment, Late 14th/15th century

A work made of steel, textile, and leather.

Mitten Gauntlet for the Right Hand, c. 1520/30

Cream-colored weaving featuring a floral motif in reddish brown, one main flower in the middle with others surrounding it.

Panel, 1450/1500

A work made of silk, plain compound cloth.

Fragment, 19th century

An irregularly shaped textile fragment of gold floral design on a red background.

Fragment, 1601/25

A work made of wood, textile, and pigment.

Coffin of Wenuhotep, Third Intermediate–Late Period, late Dynasty 25–early Dynasty 26, about 675–600 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of silk, brocaded plain compound cloth.

Fragment, Mid–18th century

A work made of silk, 4:1 satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces (satin damask).

Fragment, 1575/1625

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Minature Handled Bowl with Textile-like Design, 1450–1532

Inca

A work made of silk, satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces.

Fragment, 1601/25

A work made of cotton, satin weave; screen, roller, or block printed.

Turksib (The Turkestan-Siberian Railway) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1929

Mariya Mikhailovna Anufrieva

A work made of steel, iron, wood, wool textile, and hemp fiber.

Gun Shield, c. 1544

A small statue consisting of a multicolored rectangular base and a painted mummified figure oriented vertically, wearing an elaborate striped headdress with a plume.

Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 7 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.9 mm weft: count: varies from 28 to 44 wefts per cm; wool: single s-spun elements; s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.2–0.8 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–0.8 mm.

Abundantia from The Four Continents and Related Allegories, c. 1680/1700

Lodewijk van Schoor

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