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

Chinese Clouds (Furnishing Fabric), 1946 (produced and reprinted 1988)

Ben Rose

A work made of sisal and hemp, plain weave with discontinuous wefts and with supplementary pile wefts forming cut and uncut pile and additional warps knotted into weave; plied and wrapped.

Humming Bird I, 1970/74

Magdalena Abakanowicz

A work made of cotton, plain weave; block-printed resist, mordant dyed.

Ceremonial Cloth (Sacred Heirloom Textile), Possibly 15th/16th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave, pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave, printed, embroidered in cotton threads in buttonhole and chain stitches; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave.

Bedcover (Album Quilt), 1857

Pieced quilt of eighty-five uniquely designed squares featuring geometric and floral motifs, bordered with triangles.

Friendship Quilt, 1842

Ella Maria Deacon

A work made of appliquéd quilt; dyed and undyed plain weave cotton fabrics.

Bedcover (Cherry Trees and Robins Bride's Quilt), 1820/50

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Urn Painted with a Geometric Textile-like Pattern, 1100–1500

Carchi

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

Ayate, c. 1930

Otomí

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

Large Leaf Verdure with Birds, c. 1550/75

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined.

Coverlet, 1857

Harry Tyler

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

Christmas Horn (Furnishing Fabric), 1979

Carol Gresko-Lyons

A work made of wooden box; beaded with silk and glass beads; appliquéd with beaded figures worked over cotton padding and silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk in satin and single satin stitches; couching and seed pearls; metal hinges.

Writing Box Depicting King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, 17th century

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk in satin, single satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching, and chinese knots; painted with gold; lined with red silk (chirimen), crepe; dyed with beni, safflower.

Uchikake (Over Kimono), late Edo (1789–1868)/Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool in tent stitches.

Chair Seat and Back, 19th century

A work made of silk, satin weaves; embroidered with silk, silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laid work and couching; ties: silk, satin weave; lined with silk, twill damask.

Vestment (For a First-degree Taoist Priest), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1825/75

Cream-colored tunic with stylized birds, cats, and geometric border.

Feathered Tunic, 1470/1532

Chimú

A work.

Fragment (From a Tunic), A.D. 600/800

Wari

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

America Presenting at the Altar of Liberty Medallions of her Illustrious Sons (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1785

Pierre Eugene du Simitiere

A work made of ivory and brass.

Folding Shoe Measure, 1738

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Textile Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1974

David Plowden

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