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A work made of silk, plain weave; screen printed, stenciled, and/or stamped ribbons; pieced and embroidered with silk in feather stitches; underlaid with cotton, warp-float faced 2:1 twill weave and batting; backed with silk, plain weave; machine-stitch quilted with silk.

Bedcover (Cigar Ribbon Quilt), 1880s

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

Rhythm (Furnishing Fabric), 1972

Eleanor Kluck

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in chain, crossed back, cross, running (pattern darning), satin and stem stitches; joined by silk, needle-made inserts and linen, bobbin straight lace tape; four loom widths joined.

Bedcover, 17th century

A work made of pieced quilt; dyed and printed plain and twill weave cotton and rayon fabrics.

Aunt Jemima Quilt, 1930/1950

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

Panel (Design No. 101), 1955

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of cotton and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, solid velvet; stenciled.

Cushion Cover, 1911

Maria Monaci Gallenga

A work made of silk and mohair, pusher machine lace.

Jacket (Separated Bodice and Sleeves), 1855/65

A work made of cotton and wool, bands of plain weave self-patterned by ground weft floats.

Furnishing Fabric, 1924/28

Bauhaus Workshop

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 jute and wool.

Breakwater, 1968

Claire Zeisler

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 silk, satin weave, with needlework.

Woman's Shoes, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 19th century

A work made of cotton, needle lace of a type known as "point de gaze".

Borders, 1850s/60s

A work made of wool, plain weave; pieced; quilted with cotton; edged with wool, oblique twill interlacing.

Bedcover (Bride's Quilt), 1868

Kate Strother McClanahan

A work made of embroidery.

Hanging, 18th century

A work made of linen, wool, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave; embroidered with silk in back and split stitches.

Altar Frontal, c. 1450

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

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 cotton and rayon, float weave; photomechanically-etched roller printed.

Harvest Time (Fragment), 1950

Rockwell Kent

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

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1924

Léon Bakst

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