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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.

Cabinet or Writing Box, 17th century

A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace.

Border, 1601/25

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; knotting along edge with knotted fringe.

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

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in fishbone, overcast, and running stitches.

Cover (possibly Turban Cover), 18th century

A work made of silk, gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, twill weave with plain and twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning and brocading wefts (detached on reverse).

Fragment, 13th century

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

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

Jean Baptiste Huet

A work made of linen, needle lace.

Borders, 1760s

A work made of decoration in red, white; two greens, tan and gold on dark yellow ground. five clawed dragon hunting jewel amid clouds. lined. selvage on two sides. decoration in red, white, 2 greens, tan and gold on dark yellow ground. 5 clawed dragon hunting jewel amid clouds, 1 in each of 4 corners and 1 in circular panel in center. all over pattern covering rest. geometric line design of interlocking small hexagons and large 6 pointed stars. stars surrounded by tangent circles. conventional forms of juiheaded clouds tie these lines together and form central rosettes in stars. lined. selvage on 2 sides..

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1875/1900

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

Garrick and Shakespeare with Tragedy and Comedy (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1790

Robert Edge Pine

A work made of slit tapestry weave.

Fragment, 500 CE-1000

Moche

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

Sunflower (Furnishing Fabric), 1962

Howard Carter

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk.

Three Beauties Chatting by a Veranda, About 1792

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Prayer Rug, 1850-1900

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

Strings and Things (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1954

Ruth Adler Schnee

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

Isadora (Furnishing Fabric), 1981

Gretchen Bellinger

Very tall sculpture of braided, knotted, and twisted strands of hemp fabric arranged to make a cylindrical shape, with loose ends that pool out at the base.

Private Affair I, 1986

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

Flounce, 1860s

A work made of cotton, plain weaves; pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain and satin weaves; embroidered with cotton in back, single back, buttonhole, cross, eyelet, running, satin, single satin and stem stitches; french knots; quilted with cotton thread.

Ships Quilt, c. 1937

Marie Alsop

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk.

Beauty Under the Cherry Blossoms, early 1930s

Enomoto Chikatoshi

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