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

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1946

Serge Poliakoff

A work made of cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave and cotton, plain weave; roller printed; quilted; edged with cotton, plain weave.

Bedcover, 1855

Sarah J. Harden

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

Les Quatre Parties du Monde (Four Quarters of the Globe) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1785

Jean Baptiste Huet

Prosperity of the Kingdom

Prosperity of the Kingdom, 1600/1800

A work.

Tunic, 800-900

Nasca

A work made of wool and silk, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "persian" ("sehna") knots; edged with cotton, and wool weft-faced warp-ribbed plain weave.

Carpet, 1675-1725

A work.

Kesa, Edo period (1615–1898), 1784

A work made of jute; flanges square knotted and wrapped; cascading ends.

Red Preview, 1969

Claire Zeisler

A work made of cellophane, plain weave.

Sample (Furnishing Fabric), 1919/33

Otti Berger

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

Les Altheas, 1914/20

Raoul Dufy

A work made of wool and silk; slit, dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 7–8 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.0 mm weft: count: varies from 16 to 32 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.0 mm; silk: s-ply of two z-twisted elements (maybe replacement wefts); diameters: 0.4–0.9 mm. right half of piece was rewoven..

Prudentia (Prudence) from Los Honores, 1525-1532

Bernard van Orley

A work made of metal coils ("slinkys"); padded with jute wrapped with cotton and rayon.

Fiber Construction Entitled "Floor Slinky", About 1971

Claire Zeisler

A work made of wool and cotton, warp threads dyed in multiple colors prior to weaving; center of weft-float faced 1:3 'z' twill weave; patterned areas of warp-float faced 3:1 'z' twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings; main warp fringe;woven on loom with jacquard attachment.

Long Shawl, 1848/52

Anthony Berrus

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

Scarf, 1973

Antonio Tàpies

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 work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 'z' twill interlacings; lined with silk, plain weave, creped wefts, dyed with safflower.

Kosode, late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

A work made of wool and linen, plain weave with supplementary broading wefts and supplementary patterning wefts tied by secondary binding warps, knotted warp fringe along edge.

Hanging, after 1904

Maja Sjöström

A work made of cotton, machine-made net; appliquéd with bobbin and machine-made laces.

Pair of Long Mittens, c. 1900

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

Scarf, 1957

Georges Braque

A work made of cotton, plain weave; quilted; appliquéd and pieced with cotton, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave.

North Carolina Lily Quilt, c. 1850

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