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

Lace 'n Lillies (Furnishing Fabric), 1979

Carol Gresko-Lyons

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

Computer Colonne, 1975 (reproduced 1985)

Astrid Sampe

A work made of cotton, plain weave; with supplementary patterning warps; fringed through extended warp thread.

Ayate, 1900/40

Otomí

A work made of cotton, plain weave; wool latch-hooked pile; braided and wrapped in wool.

Rug, c. 1965

Sheila Hicks

A work made of linen, plain weave; double cloth.

Panel (Intended as a Bathmat) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1950s

Alvar Aalto

A work made of wool, twill weave.

Sample (Dress Fabric), 1964

Dorothy Liebes

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 8 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–0.9 mm weft: count: varies from 18 to 44 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two and three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.0 mm; silk: three yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–1.0 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of s-ply of two z-spun wool elements and s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.6–1.0 mm.

Cleopatra Enjoys Herself at Sea from The Story of Cleopatra, c. 1680

Workshop of Willem van Leefdael

A work made of cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; printed.

Kyoto (Furnishing Fabric), 1965

Hans Krondahl

A work made of linen, plain weave; pulled thread work with silk floss in two-sided italian cross stitch; inside waistband gathered by feather, running, and back filling stitches; edged in silk, warp twining with ground weft fringe, attached by buttonhole and detached buttonhole stitches.

Apron, 17th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave; engraved roller printed.

Le Kakatoes (The Cockatoo) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1815/20

Favre-Petitpierre et Cie.

A work made of cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with plain weave; painted; embroidered with cotton, polyester, and metallized-polyester-film-wrapped rayon in machine stitches.

Limits of Reality, 1993

B. J. Adams

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.

A Courtesan Reading a Letter, 1820/25

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of wool and cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps.

Panel, c. 1886

Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

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

Seedy Weeds (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1953

Ruth Adler Schnee

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

Le Tombeau de Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Tomb of Jean Jacques Rousseau) (Furnishing Fabric), after 1778

Jean Baptiste Huet

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

Hanging ("The Sweet Way of Life"), c. 1927

Lorentz Kleiser

A work made of cellophane, float weave.

Sample of Furnishing Fabric, 1927/33

Otti Berger

A work made of leather.

Shoe, 1553/58

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.

Kobo Daishi (Kukai) as a Boy (Chigo Daishi), 15th century

A work made of wool and silk, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave warp: count: 6 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameter: 1.0 mm weft: count: varies from 18 to 29 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.3 mm; silk: z-ply of two s-twisted elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.5–0.8 mm.

Moses, 1460-1470

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