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A work made of appliquéd and embroidered quilt; dyed cotton plain weave fabrics; cotton embroidery threads; ink drawing and inscriptions.

Map Quilt, c. 1920

A work made of cotton, "point de gaze" needle lace.

Borders, 1850s/60s

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

La Vie de Jeanne d'Arc (The Life of Joan of Arc) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1815

Charles Abraham Chasselat

Large rectangle of fabric, geometric shapes depicting ship and people, in red, blue and yellow.

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai), 19th century

Paminggir

A work made of cotton, plain weaves; pieced; appliquéd; some printed; embroidered in buttonhole and herringbone stitches; quilted; backed and overlined with cotton, plain weave.

Bedcover, 1833

Carolyn A. Ford

A work made of silk (crepe fiber warp), plain weave; screen printed.

Scarf, 1975

Bram van Velde

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

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1924

Léon Bakst

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

Handkerchief, c. 1806

Gilbert Stuart

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

Five-Petaled Flower-Shaped Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of cotton and rayon, float weave; photomechanically-etched roller printed.

Harvest Time (Fragment), 1950

Rockwell Kent

Red long sleeve garment embroidered with a large gold tree with white blossoms.

Furisode, late Edo period (1789–1868), 1801/1868

A work made of handscroll; ink and colors on silk.

United by Music 合樂圖, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 15th/16th century

Zhou Wenju

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

Anatolia (Furnishing Fabric), 1988

Osborne & Little (Firm)

A work made of silk, cotton, and rayon, 27 narrow woven strips of plain weave with bands of weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave and bands of plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; joined.

Kente Wrapper (Nsaduaso), 1925-75

Asante

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced twill weave with weft float faced twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; interlined with cotton, plain weave.

Kosode, Edo period (1615–1868), 1775/1800

A work made of cotton, rayon, nylon and cellulose acetate film, diamond twill weave; screen printed.

Fun to Run (Furnishing Fabric), 1947 designed (1948/65 produced)

La Verne Originals

A work made of wool, 2:2 broken twill weave; fulled; embroidered with rayon in chain stitches; two lengths joined.

Man's Wrapper (Akunitan), 20th century

Akan

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary backing warps and supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile.

Area Rug, 1920/39

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

En Losanges (Shawl), 1977 (designed 1920)

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

A work made of wool and cotton, pieced; plain weaves; plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; printed; plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, solid velvet; plain weave self-patterned by ground weft floats; edged and backed with cotton, satin weave.

"Log Cabin" Quilt, Late 1880s

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