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

Composition Gris, Noir, Rouge (Composition Gray, Black, Red), 1958

Jean (Hans) Arp

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

Feathered Tunic, 1470/1532

Chimú

A work made of paper, woodcuts; 499 pages.

De Gli Habiti Antichi, et Moderni di Diuerse Parti del Mondo Libri Dve, Fatti da Cesare Vecellio et con discoursi da Lui Dichiarti. Con Privilegio", 1590

Cesare Vecellio

A work made of silk and cotton, areas of warp-float faced satin weave, plain weave, and twill weave; with weft floats on reverse face in plain weave areas.

La Promenade, 1924

Bianchini Férier

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave with discontinuous wefts; fulled.

Si Rothko M'etait Conté (If Rothko Himself Had Told Me a Story), 1997

Mariette Rousseau-Vermette

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 cotton, bobbin straight lace.

Border, 1825/50

A work made of antler, bone, leather, iron, textile, and gold thread.

Powder Flask, Mid-17th century or 19th century in the 17th century style

A square-shape textile with a dual multicolor border features a painted five-by-four grid of images with the repeated face of a Black woman with short hair, Bessie Smith. Her face appears blue in each instance, while the outline of her facial features, her hair, and clothing alternate colors in varying shades of yellow and orange. The background of each square likewise alternates between shades of blue and green, some with an influx of red.

American Collection #5: Bessie's Blues, January 19, 1997

Faith Ringgold

A work made of cotton, plain weave, quilted (sashiko); painted.

Fireman's Coat (Hikeshi Sashiko Banten), Meiji period (1868–1912), c. 1875-1900

A work made of silk, warp-float faced broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; appliquéd with linen, plain weave, silk and gilt and silvered wire, plain weave with twill interlacing of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; silk and silvered wire, twill weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt and silvered wire in overcast, satin, padded satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; semi-precious stones; edged with woven fringes.

Altar Frontal Depicting Scenes from the Life of Christ, Late 16th century

A work made of cellophane and cotton, double woven plain weaves.

Furnishing Fabric, 1927/33

Otti Berger

A work made of steel, iron, copper, textile, leather, and wood.

Rapier and Scabbard, c. 1630

Antonio Piccinino

A work made of cotton, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "valenciennes" with a square valenciennes mesh ground.

Seven Borders, 1850/75

A work made of wool, warp chevron twill weave; screen printed.

Bouquet Garni (Furnishing or Drapery Fabric), 1976

Don Wight

A work made of sisal, hemp, and horsehair, slit tapestry weave with raised coils of supplementary wefts; attached strips of weft-faced plain weave and lengths of horsehair.

Brun Rouge, 1970/73

Magdalena Abakanowicz

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

Le Char de l'Aurore (The Chariot of Dawn) (Furnishing Fabric), 1785/89

Guido Reni

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

Le Meunier, Son Fils, et l'Ane (The Miller, His Son, and the Ass) (Furnishing Fabric), 1806

Jean Baptiste Huet

A work made of cotton, pieced plain weaves; some printed; some glazed; backed with paper.

Unfinished Mosaic or Honeycomb Quilt Top, c. 1840

A work made of oil on silk.

Pray for These Little Ones (Perforce They Live Together), 1973–74

Ivan Albright

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