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A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool yarns in bullion, flat, roman, satin, stem, and surface satin stitches.

Chair Seat, c. 1717

Abigail Davenport (Williams)

A work made of wool and cotton; tapestry weave.

Les Saltimbanques (The Entertainers), 1959

Liliane Badin

A work made of wool (camelid), plain weave; embroidered in stem stitches; edged with cross-knit loop stitches; loop and plied fringes.

Poncho Displaying Contorted Figures, c. 200-150 BCE

Paracas

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

Don Quichotte (Don Quixote) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1785

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée

A work made of floral design with small animals, swastika, lanterns embroidered on gauze..

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

Han-Chinese

A work made of silk, rayon, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, twill weave, with patterning wefts bound in twill interlacing; woven on a loom with a jacquard attachment.

“Chevaux Marins, Baleines et Coquillages” (Sea horses, Whales and Shellfish), c. 1925

Raoul Dufy

A work made of wool and cotton; tapestry weave.

Josephine Baker, 1974

Robert Emmet Brady

A work made of linen and wool, slit tapestry weave.

Fragment of a Border, Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.)/Arab period (641–969), 6th/7th century

Coptic

A work made of linen, jute and rayon; end sections: plain weave with supplementary, paired patterning warps and supplementary binding wefts; center section: plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, alternating two-color main warp in pairs; edges bound in ribbon of cotton and rayon.

Study for Six Prayers: No. IV, 1965/66

Anni Albers

A work made of cotton and wool, three-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps.

Cry for Help, 1904

Josef Hoffmann

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

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1920s

Atelier Martine

A work made of center: cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk, cotton, and wool in buttonhole, chain, cross, single cross, feather, roumanian, satin, single satin, stem, and twined double running stitches; squares: cotton, cotton and linen, and linen, plain weaves; block, copperplate, and roller printed.

Bedcover, 1795/1820

Mary Jones

A work made of cotton, plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats.

Sample, 20th century

Anni Albers

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

Border, 1860/80

A work made of wool, cotton, linen, rayon, nylon, acrylic, silk, and hemp, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric wefts and laced, overcast and wrapped outlining wefts.

Mysterium, 1987

Urszula Plewka-Schmidt

A work made of linen and sisal, resist dyed, plain weave; folded; twisted; mounted to plexiglas.

Color Intersection M-II, Heisei period (1989–present), 1997

Shigeo Kubota

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

The Apotheosis of Washington and Franklin (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1785

Valentine Green

A work made of wool and linen, slit tapestry weave.

Fragment (Border), Roman period (30 B.C– 641 A.D.), 5th/6th century

Ancient Egyptian

Sleeveless vest, photographed in black and white, featuring a leaf motif and a decorated panel down the front.

Chasuble with Orphrey Bands, 17th century

A work made of machine-made lace; backed with silk warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; silk, warp-float faced 15:1 satin weave with supplementary pile warps foaming cut solid velvet ribbon wrap rhinestone and metal buckle's ribbon ties; silk warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; silk loops and plain weave edge; leather.

Pair of Tango Shoes, 1914/19

Costa

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