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A work made of silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet.

Fragment, 1450/1500

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

Skyscrapers (Furnishing Fabric), 1942 (produced c. 1947)

Angelo Testa

A work made of linen, bobbin part lace (worked in large sections with the aid of a hook).

Altar Frontal, 1725/50

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

West Wind, 1931

Duncan Grant

A work made of coiled wool yarns wrapped and overworked with cotton yarns in buttonhole stitches; metal discs overworked with cotton yarns in buttonhole stitches; wool yarns irregularly interworked, knotted in half stitches, and terminating in cut fringe.

Hanging, 1950s

Claire Zeisler

A work made of cotton, plain weave; printed.

Russo-Japanese War (Handkerchief), 19th century

A work made of a and b: human hair, seven elements plaited to form warps and wefts; two layers of alternating weft wrapping, self-patterned c and d: iron with gold.

Belts (sabuk and epek) and Buckles (timang and lerep), Early 20th 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 cotton, plain weave; screen printed.

Spefaglar (Bird) (Furnishing Fabric), 1959 (reproduced 1985)

Hans Krondahl

A work made of linen, plain weave; pulled thread work with silk floss in two-sided italian cross stitch; embroidered in back stitch.

Border, 17th century

A work made of wood, metal, paper, and silk warp.

Miniature Loom or Patent Model with Jacquard Attachment, Punched Cards and Tools, 1900/25

A work made of silk, satin weave with brocading wefts and secondary binding warps tying some ground wefts in plain interlacing.

Panel, c. 1736

Style of Jean Revel

A work made of cotton, linen, rayon, metallized polyester film, and cellulose film, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning of secondary binding warp floats.

Sketch, c. 1960

Trude Guermonprez

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

Country Fair (Drapery Fabric), c. 1951

Ruth Adler Schnee

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

L'Amour et Psyche (Cupid and Psyche) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1810

Jean Baptiste Huet

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

Cables (Furnishing Fabrics), 1958

Ruth Adler Schnee

A work made of silk and cotton, plain, twill, and satin weaves; some resist dyed or printed (chiné), some self-patterned, some printed, some "watered" (moiré); pieced; backed with silk, plain weave; printed; edged with silk, satin weave.

Bedcover, c. 1880

Mary Elizabeth (Motter) Tansill

A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), bands of two-, three-, and four-color complementary weft weaves.

Sampler, A.D. 1000/1476

Chancay

A work made of appliquéd and pieced quilt; dyed and printed plain and patterned weave cotton fabrics; cotton embroidery threads.

Quilt Show, 1943

Bertha Stenge

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

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

Chancay

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