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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

A work made of wool, 2:2 twill weave; embroidered with wool in chain and running stitches; couching and french knots.

Chasuble, c. 1750

A work made of contemporary assemblage of materials from a variety of past cultures. cotton and wool, variety of weaves; embroidered with wool in satin and back stitches; cotton wrapped twigs.

Dolls, 1950/84, with textile fragments from A.D. 1000/1476

Chancay

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

George Washington at the Altar of Liberty (Handkerchief), 1819

Cornelius Tiebout

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

Panel, 1775/1825

Jean Baptiste Pillement

A work made of wool, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns in algerian eye, back, compound cross, cross, double or smyrna cross, flame, flat, eye, greek cross filling, herringbone, jacquard, rococo, running, satin, and surface satin stitches.

Sampler, 19th century

Beige, square textile with a large circle filling the piece. The circle is bisected laterally, with light-blue vertical striations at top and a beige effect at bottom that includes some darker striations. Short fringe at top and bottom.

Waters Above the Firmament, 1976

Lenore Tawney

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

"The Present Time", After 1879

Thomas Stevens

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

Algiers (Furnishing Fabric), 1952

Angelo Testa

A work made of wool, plain weave of discontinuous wefts with areas of open work and weft wrapping.

Ventana I, 1963

Sheila Hicks

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

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), c. 1920

Atelier Martine

A work made of wool and cotton, stripes of plain weave and two-color complementary warp weave; braided fringe.

Belt (Chumpi or Wak’a), Probably late 19th/early 20th century

Quechua

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

Le Solitaire au Pont du Torrent (The Hermit at the Bridge over the Torrent) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1822

Hartmann et Fils

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

Gymnastics (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1930/32

Elizaveta Nikitina

A work made of wool and cotton, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; extended warp fringe bundles, finished with oblique interlacing border; wool tassels, tops embroidered with buttonhole stitches; henna dyed.

Headscarf, Early 20th century

Ida Ou Nadif

A work made of strips of linen and cotton, plain weave with exposed warps; applied gesso; painted with gold leaf and pigment; joined by knotted extended ground weft fringe.

Alquimia III (Alchemy III), 1983

Olga de Amaral

A work made of rayon and cotton, satin weave; screen printed.

West Wind, 1931

Duncan Grant

A work made of silk, gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 2:1 twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings; left selvage present.

Fragment, 14th century

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

Landscape with Daoist Immortals Playing Weiqi, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 15th-16th century

Dai Jin

A work made of linen plain weave embroidered in silk floss, silk chenille and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; glass beads; applied braid.

Orpheus Charming the Animals, first half 17th century

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