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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

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 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, plain weave; engraved roller printed.

Les Monuments de Paris (The Monuments of Paris) (Furnishing Fabric), 1816/18

Hippolyte Lebas

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

Apotheosis of Washington and Franklin (Furnishing Fabric)

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

Valentine Green

A work made of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, cross, and padded cross stitches.

Sampler, 1801/75

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

Border, 1860/80

A work made of wooden box, brass-colored fittings; mother-of-pearl tools.

Sewing Box, 19th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave, pieced; quilted, pattern outlined in pencil, heavily padded in parts; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave, printed, embroidered; backed with cotton, plain weave.

"Rosebreasted Grosbeak and Iris" Quilt, c. 1951

Dr. Jeannette Dean Throckmorton

A work made of silk and cotton; areas of warp-float faced turned satin weave, weft-faced twill weave and plain weave tying half of the ground wefts on face and half on reverse.

Summer Sports, c. 1920

Alberto Fabio Lorenzi

A work made of wool, cotton and silk, felt and plain and twill weaves, some self-patterned, some with supplementary pile wefts forming cut pile, some fulled; one embroidered with rayon; couching of oblique interlacing tape; pieced; backed with cotton, plain weaves, some self-patterned, some fulled, some roller-printed; embroidered with wool in feather stitches; edged with wool, twill weave.

"Wool-Drawings" Quilt, c. 1900

A work made of jute and wool; square knotted with cascading ends; wool pile.

Black Tuesday, 1968

Claire Zeisler

A work made of wool and cotton, two-color complementary warp weave based on a diamond twill weave; braided warp fringe.

Belt (Chumpi or Wak’a), Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Quechua

A work made of silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strips, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and metal purl and spangles in long-armed cross, padded satin, satin, single satin, split, and stem stitches; couching and embroidered cut pile; embellished with mica and glass beads.

Picture Depicting Peace, Justice, and Plenty (Needlework), 17th century

A work made of cotton, polyester, and rayon, plain and twill weaves; pieced; backed with cotton and polyester, plain weave; quilted with cotton thread.

Hired Hand Quilt with Tumbling Block Pattern, 1950/2000

Amish

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

Veil with Russian Imperial Family Coat of Arms, 1875/1900

A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave.

Border, 1000-1476

Chancay

A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn thread work backed by cotton, machine made "twist net"; and embroidered with cotton in buttonhole, eyelet, padded overcast, and padded satin stitches.

Handkerchief, 1875/1900

A work made of wool, weft-faced warp-rib plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes knots".

Carpet (Known as a "Ryijy" or "Rya"), 1701/25

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