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A work made of cotton.

Fragment, c. 1870

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Flaring Bowl with Textile and Exterior Basket Patternings on Interior and Exterior Surfaces, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

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

Wheatsheaves (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1925/29

Great Ivanovo-Voznesensk Textile Mill

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 steel, iron, wood, wool textile, and hemp fiber.

Gun Shield, c. 1544

A work made of gold woven border..

Fragment (Border), 17th century

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

Zebres, 1959

Victor de Vasarely

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 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 cotton, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes (turkish) knots".

Prayer Rug, c. 1900

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

Parrying Gauntlet, 1550/1575

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 patterning and brocading wefts.

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

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 calabash, sticks, cloth, and string.

"Fortress" Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

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

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

Sergi Petrovich Burylin

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 cotton, plain weave; engraved roller printed; glazed.

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1856

Lancaster Prints

A work made of cisele voided satin velvet.

Fragment, 16th century

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