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Red silk with plant inspired design in green, white, and yellow.

Fragment, Nasrid dynasty (1230–1492), late 15th century

A work made of steel, iron, wood, silk velvet textile, wood fiber, and leather.

Two-Handed Sword with Scabbard, 1580-1600

A work made of wool (camelid), plain weave; embroidered in stem stitches; corners edged with weft-faced plain weave with extended ground weft fringe and embroidered in cross-knit loop stitches.

Mantle, 100 BCE-200 CE

Paracas

A work made of wool, stripes of plain weave, warp ikat plain weave, and-two color complementary warp weave; plied warp fringe.

Chief's Poncho, 1850/1900

Mapuche

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

Triomphe de Voltaire (Triumph of Voltaire) (Furnishing Fabric), 1788/93

Petitpierre et Cie.

A work made of wool and rayon felt; cut and machine stitched with cotton.

Incomplete Construction, 1950/91

Claire Zeisler

A work made of wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming solid cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes knots"; attached wool, knotted fringe.

Le Jardin (The Garden), 1925/26

Jean Lurçat

A work made of cotton, plain weave, printed: total of swatches: volume i: 238; volume ii: 57 (also 15 border designs on paper: see 1959.883c-q).

Bordures, 19th century

A work made of paint and graphite, on paper.

Needlework Design, c. 1915

k. und k. Kunststickereischule

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

La Liberté Americaine (American Liberty) (Furnishing Fabric), 1783/89

Jean Baptiste Huet

A work made of cotton, linen, silk, wild silk, nettle fiber (ramie), rayon, and wool, plain weave and slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts.

A Weaving, 2012

James Bassler

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

Computer Colonne, 1975 (reproduced 1985)

Astrid Sampe

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

Lace 'n Lillies (Furnishing Fabric), 1979

Carol Gresko-Lyons

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; with supplementary patterning warps; fringed through extended warp thread.

Ayate, 1900/40

Otomí

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 hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.

A Courtesan Reading a Letter, 1820/25

Chôbunsai Eishi

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 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; double cloth.

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

Alvar Aalto

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