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

Cross Country Skis (Furnishing Fabric), 1979

Carol Gresko-Lyons

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

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

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée

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 linen and wool, slit tapestry weave.

Fragment of a Border, Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE)/Arab period (641–969), 6th/7th century

Coptic

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 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 cotton and linen; plain weave; block printed.

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1920s

Atelier Martine

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, plain weave; engraved roller printed.

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

Hippolyte Lebas

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, 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 wool and linen, slit tapestry weave.

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

Ancient Egyptian

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

Sewing Box, 19th century

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, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, cross, and padded cross stitches.

Sampler, 1801/75

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 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, needle lace of a type known as "point de gaze".

Border, 1860/80

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

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