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A work made of silk, weft resist-dyed (ikat) twill weave.

Ceremonial Hanging (Khmer Pidan), 1875/1925

Khmer

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 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 and silk, plain weaves, some roller printed; pieced; appliquéd with cotton and wool, plain weave wrapped cardboard; edged and backed with cotton, plain weave; roller printed; quilted with cotton thread.

Honeycomb Centre Quilt, 1877

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 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 silk, plain weave; appliquéd with silk plain weaves and silk and cotton, plain weaves cut solid velvet; sewn with silk and cotton, and embroidered with silk in chain, herringbone, satin, single back and stem stitches; french knots and couching; edged with silk, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; glazed.

Bedcover (Basket of Flowers Quilt), c. 1860

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 B.C./A.D. 200

Paracas

A work made of cellophane, float weave.

Sample of Furnishing Fabric, 1927/33

Otti Berger

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, 1460/70

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

Piano (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1943 (produced 1944/48)

Henry Moore

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

A Courtesan Reading a Letter, 1820/25

Chôbunsai Eishi

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

America Presenting at the Altar of Liberty Medallions of Her Illustrious Sons (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1785

Pierre Eugene du Simitiere

A work made of cotton, plain weave with supplementary wool yarns pushed through ground weave to form cut solid pile (gun tufted).

Carpet or Hanging, 1945

George Lovett Kingsland Morris

A work made of leather.

Shoe, 1553/58

A work made of contemporary assemblage of materials from a variety of past cultures. cotton and wool, variety of weaves; embroided with cotton and wool in running and satin stitches; cotton wrapped twigs.

Dolls, 1950/84, with textile fragments from A.D. 1000/1476

Chancay

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

Direction (Furnishing Fabric), 1979

Nob and Non

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

Océanie - La Mer (Oceania - The Sea), 1948

Henri Matisse

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

Split Entry (Furnishing Fabric), 1969

Richard Landis

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

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

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