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A work made of silk, satin weave, with needlework.

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

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.

The Effect of Principle, Behold the Man (Handkerchief), c. 1806

Gilbert Stuart

A work made of raffia, plain weave; embroidered in overcast and stem with running stitches cut to form pile; couching.

Panel, Early/mid–20th century

Kuba

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 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

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

Scarf, 1975

Bram van Velde

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

Fragment, 1920s

Atelier Martine

A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work in buttonholed, darned, and overcast bars with buttonholed picots; embroidered in buttonhole, double running, hem, interlocking lace, overcast, and satin stitches; buttonholed couching; macramé edge with knotted fringe.

Border, 1601/25 (macramé edge: c. 1600)

A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace.

Border, 1601/25

A work made of linen, needle lace.

Borders, 1760s

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 cotton, plain weave; screen printed.

Strings and Things (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1954

Ruth Adler Schnee

A work made of wool; plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile ("turkish"/ghiordes) knots.

Prayer Rug, second half of 19th century

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 cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed.

Le Parc du Chateau (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1783

Jean Baptiste Huet

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 wooden box; covered with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back, running, and satin stitches; laid work and couching; edged with silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, plain weave; lined with silk, plain weave and plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; silver hardware; two glass bottles inside.

Writing Box (Needlework), 17th century

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

Isadora (Furnishing Fabric), 1981

Gretchen Bellinger

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

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