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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 cotton, plain weave; engraved roller printed.

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

Robert Edge Pine

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

Isadora (Furnishing Fabric), 1981

Gretchen Bellinger

A work made of slit tapestry weave.

Fragment, A.D. 500/1000

Moche

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

Sunflower (Furnishing Fabric), 1962

Howard Carter

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

Flounce, 1860s

A work made of linen, needle lace with woven tapes.

Bedcover or Hanging, 1701/25

A work made of cotton, rayon, and polyester, five-color complementary warp and three-color complementary weft plain weave double cloth; self-patterned by areas of warp and weft floats.

Circa 1903 Ave Maria (Furnishing Fabric), 1991

Rob Rose

A work made of wool and silk; slit, single, and double dovetailed tapestry weave. warp: count: 6 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameter: 1.0 mm. weft: count: varies from 13 to 28 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.6 mm (some wefts, probably repairs or replacements, are pairs and three yarns of s-ply of two z-spun elements); silk: s-ply of two z-twisted elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.5–1.2 mm..

Elias (fragment) from The Transfiguration of Christ, 1460/70

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 cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed.

La Route de Jouy (The Road to Jouy) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1820

Delmès

A work made of wool, slit tapestry weave.

Yoke, Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.), 5th/6th century

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed.

Coverlet, 1855

William Craig, Jr.

A work made of cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave and cotton, plain weave roller printed; quilted with cotton; edged with cotton, plain weave roller printed; backing: cotton, plain weave; padding: cotton.

Bedcover (Princess Feather or Ostrich Plume Quilt), c. 1850

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

Beauty Under the Cherry Blossoms, early 1930s

Enomoto Chikatoshi

A work made of cotton and wool, warp-faced plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts tied by supplementary binding warps.

Panel, c. 1886

Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

A work made of pina (pineapple) fiber, plain weave with cotton embroidery.

Blouse, 19th century

A work made of linen, lacis construction.

Black Comet Dream, 1965

Luba Krejci

A work made of silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk floss in chain stitches; backed and lined with silk, plain weave; edged with silk, warp-faced plain weave with extended ground weft fringe; silk tassels.

Bedcover Depicting the Five Senses, 1675/1725

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