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A work made of cotton, needle lace of a type known as "point de gaze".

Border, 1875/1900

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

William Penn's Treaty with the Indians (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1800

John Boydell

A work made of linen, plain weave, block printed with surface paint corrections.

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1955

Ling Po

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain, cross, eyelet, hem, satin and single satin stitches.

Sampler, 19th century

Ann Morris

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

Lokki (Seagull) (Furnishing Fabric), 1961

Maija Isola

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

Panel, 1701/25

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

A work.

Tunic, 800-900

Nasca

Prosperity of the Kingdom

Prosperity of the Kingdom, 1600/1800

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 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 made of silk, satin weave; screen printed.

Les Altheas, 1914/20

Raoul Dufy

A work made of cellophane, plain weave.

Sample (Furnishing Fabric), 1919/33

Otti Berger

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", c. 1971

Claire Zeisler

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 silk, twill weave; screen printed.

Scarf, 1973

Antonio Tàpies

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