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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; screen printed.

Signal (Tablecloth), 1977 (designed 1920)

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

A work made of silk, plain weave; pieced; attached ribbon and cord.

Wrapping Cloth, Pojagi, 19th century

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

Amsel (Blackbird) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1910/11

Koloman (Kolo) Moser

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

Arlequin (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1977 (designed 1920)

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

A work made of cotton, warp-float faced twill weave with supplementary weft pile; screen printed.

Black Magic (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1977 (designed 1920)

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 8 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of four z-spun elements; diameter: 0.8 mm weft: count: varies from 22 to 42 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm; silk: pairs and three yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.5–1.0 mm.

Caesar and Cleopatra Enjoying Themselves from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra, c. 1680

Workshop of Gerard Peemans

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

Rapier and Scabbard, c. 1630

Antonio Piccinino

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 cotton, plain weave; screen printed.

Coral Stucture (Furnishing Fabric), 1960s/70s

Astrid Sampe

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 cotton and wool, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

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

Jean (Hans) Arp

A work made of embroidered in silks on gauze in design of flowers and plants in jardinieres.

Sleeve Band, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1875/1900

Han-Chinese

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 cotton, plain weave, quilted (sashiko); painted.

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

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 oil on silk.

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

Ivan Albright

A work made of cotton, bobbin straight lace.

Border, 1825/50

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

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