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

Waldidyll (Forest Idyll) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1910/11

Carl Otto Czeschka

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

La Foire du Caire (The Cairo Fair) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1800

Boudry

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

Marchesa (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1928

Mathilde Flögl

A group of black children stand closely together, gazing out at the viewer. They wear brightly colored and patterened clothing made of African fabrics; one child stands in front of the others with his arms outstretched in a protective gesture, wearing a belt and sash that identify him as part of a school safety patrol.

The Safety Patrol, 2018

Bisa Butler

A work made of cotton, weft-float faced satin weave; screen printed.

Arabian Nights (Furnishing Fabric), 1950

Angelo Testa

A work made of linen and cotton, weft-float faced twill weave; embroidered with wool yarns in arrowhead, back, buttonhole, herringbone, roumanian, running, satin, sheaf filling, and stem stitches; wool tassels at corners.

Needlework Panel Depicting a Cavalier, 1689

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered in linen thread; with pearl buckles and bobbin lace rosettes; ribbons, silk, plain weave; leather.

Pair of Shoes, 1914

Ducerf-Scavini

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

Stage of Europe December 1812 (Handkerchief), c. 1813

A work made of silk, cotton, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and cut voided velvet.

Panel, 1575/1625

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

Himmeli (Furnishing Fabric), 1957

Maija Isola

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

Coca or Ceremonial Cloth (Inkuña), 1850/1900

Aymara

A work made of linen and wool, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave.

Teatr, 1950s

Stefan Galkowski

A work made of wool, plain weave, with couched braid.

Pair of Leggings, 19th century

A work made of silk, satin, twill, and plain weaves; some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts, some self-patterned by main warps and ground wefts; some embroidered with silk and silk chenille yarns in bullion, satin, split and stem stitches; couching; some warp dyed; silk and silk and cotton, plain and satin weaves with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid and cut voided velvets; and wool, twill weave; embroidered in herringbone, satin and stem stitches; pieced; padded; backed with cotton, plain weave and embroidered with silk in cross, double feather, feather, fly, herringbone, knot, satin and split stitches.

Square from a 'Crazy Quilt', c. 1884

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave; tied and free double cloth ("beiderwand").

Panel in the Style of "Beiderwand", 1875/1925

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

Anakreon (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1937/57 (reproduced 1980s)

Josef Frank

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

Louis XVI Restaurateur de la Liberté (Louis XVI Restorer of Liberty) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1789/ 91

Jean Baptiste Huet

A work made of wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "persian (sehna) knots".

Carpet, Early 16th century, Mamluk period (1250–1517)

A work made of single six-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on silk.

Fish and Plants, 1908

Ikeda Keisen

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

Flying Buttresses, 1935

Walter Dorwin Teague

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