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A work made of calabash, sticks, cloth, and string.

"Fortress" Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of silk, satin weave, embroidered.

Dress for Christ Child, 18th century

A work made of silk, three color complementary warp plain weave with inner wefts and self-patterned by inner weft floats; knotted warp fringe.

Panel (Reproduction of T'ang Textile), Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1950/75

Tatsumura Textile Company Ltd.

A work made of silk, bobbin straight lace (made in horizontal strips).

Bonnet Veil, 1850s

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

Fragment (Depicting Airplanes) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1927

Raisa G. Matveeva

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

Fragment, A.D. 900/1476

A work made of wool and linen, tapestry weave.

Border, Greco–Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.), 4th/5th century

A work made of silk and linen, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in plain interlacings.

Fragment, 17th century

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

Female Pioneers, 1928/32

Oskar Petrovich Gryun

A work made of cotton, combined twill weave; probably screen printed.

Industry (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1930

Sergi Petrovich Burylin

A work made of steel, brass, traces of gilding, leather, and velvet textile.

Armor for the Field and Tourney, 1560/70

A work made of silk, silvered-metal strips, and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, weft-rib plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and patterning wefts.

Fragment, c. 1750

A work.

Commemorative Bookmark "Centennial U.S.A.", 1876

Thomas Stevens

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts and supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and with supplementary pile warps forming pile-on-pile cut voided velvet.

Fragment, 1450/1500

A work made of silk, warp faced weft ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; woven on loom with jacquard attachment.

Portrait of Napoleon III (1808–1873), Emperor, 19th century

Marc-Laurent Bruyas

A work made of cisele voided cloth velvet.

Velvet, 1600/50

A work made of silk, cut, uncut, voided velvet with additional patterning wefts in gold foil against plain weave foundation.

Fragment, c. 1600

A work made of silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts.

"The London & York Royal Mail Coach", 1879

Thomas Stevens

A work.

Tassels, A.D. 1000/1476

Textile border fragment in blue, green, and coral, with stripes at top, figures in the middle, and square fringe at bottom.

Fragment (Border), 100 B.C./A.D. 200

Nasca

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