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A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 7 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.9 mm weft: count: varies from 28 to 44 wefts per cm; wool: single s-spun elements; s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.2–0.8 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–0.8 mm.

Abundantia from The Four Continents and Related Allegories, c. 1680/1700

Lodewijk van Schoor

A small statue consisting of a multicolored rectangular base and a painted mummified figure oriented vertically, wearing an elaborate striped headdress with a plume.

Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 6–7 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.8–1.0 mm weft: count: varies from 20 to 34 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.3–1.1 mm; silk; s-ply of two z-twisted elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; three yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.7–1.2 mm.

Diana and Her Nymphs with the Ox Hunt, c. 1600

Hans Bol

A work made of steel, iron, linen textile, and leather.

Parrying Gauntlet, 1550/1575

A work made of cotton.

Fragment, c. 1870

Textile fragment, light brown background with darker patterning of wide vine-line forms with leaves and flourishes, outlined in red thread.

Fragment, 1450-1500

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

Wheatsheaves (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1925/29

Great Ivanovo-Voznesensk Textile Mill

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

Zebres, 1959

Victor de Vasarely

A work made of gold woven border..

Fragment (Border), 17th century

A work made of silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Fragment, 16th century

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

Propellers (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1928/32

Great Ivanovo-Voznesensk Textile Mill

A work made of wool and cotton, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes (turkish) knots".

Prayer Rug, c. 1900

A vertical textile in red and gold depicts a saint holding a flag in the upper center. Two people in armor appear toward the bottom, one holding a shield with a scorpion on it.

Fragment (From an Orphrey Band), 15th century

A work made of silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Fragment, 1575/1600

A work made of silk, plain weave with patterning and brocading wefts.

Panel (From a Dress), c. 1745/46

A work made of cotton, twill weave; probably screen printed.

Belts and Gears (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1927/32

Sergi Petrovich Burylin

A work made of cotton, plain weave; block-printed mordant and resist-dyed; painted.

Heirloom Textile (sarasa), 18th century

A tapestry depicting a fountain that features two nude females holding a platform on which another nude female lies, her arm around a moose.

The Petitions [right part], 1607/30

Antoine Caron

A work made of silk, three color complementary warp plain weave with inner wefts and self-patterned by inner weft floats; knotted warp fringe.

Panel (Reproduction of T'ang Textile), Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1950/75

Tatsumura Textile Company Ltd.

A work made of silk, silver gilt strips, and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary patterning and supplementary brocading wefts.

Fragment, 1650/1700

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