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A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work in antique hem, double-rowed openwork, interlocking lace, overcast, and satin stitches; darned and overcast bars; darned and woven wheels; darned squares; woven picots; embroidered with silk and linen in bullion, satin and square chain stitches; buttonhole wheels and eyelet holes; edged with buttonhole loops.

Coif, 1601/25

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

Waldfee (Fairy of the Woods) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1912/17

Wiener Werkstätte

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

Le Tombeau de Voltaire (Voltaire's Tomb) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1785

Pierre Dubern et Cie.

A work made of silk and gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber cores, countered warp twining with extended weft loop fringe.

"Renaissance" Fringe, 16th century

A work made of mixed lace of cotton, machine-made tape and linen needle lace ; fillings outer edge finished with cotton machine-made picots.

Bag (Half of Bag), c. 1907

A work made of woll, stripes of plain weave and two color complementary warp weave; braides fringe.

Belt (Wak'a), 1900/50

Aymara

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

Little Men with Bird (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1949

Ruth Adler Schnee

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

Poco Poco (Furnishing Fabric), 1960

Angelo Testa

A work made of wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes knots".

Carpet, 1920/29

Jean Lurçat

A work made of wool, diamond twill weave molded and folded; and embroidered with lamb's wool, alpaca, and mohair yarns in buttonhole, chain, detached chain, running, satin, and stem stitches; couching.

Fall, 1979

Nancy Hemenway Barton

A work made of silk, twill weave; screen printed.

Scarf, 1971

Valerio Adami

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

Little Boxes (Furnishing Fabric), 1968

Sue Thatcher Palmer

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

Ananas (Pineapple) (Furnishing Fabric), 1963

Maija Isola

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross, romanian, satin, and stem stitches.

Sampler, 1775/1800

A work made of wool, tapestry weave; embroidered.

Fragment, 6th-8th century

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

Triomphe de Voltaire (Triumph of Voltaire) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1788/93

Petitpierre et Cie.

A work made of a: silk, complex gauze weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing with silk tapes of 3:1 twill oblique interlacing, ikat; lined; plain weave; b: silk, weft-ribbed plain weave; waist band and ties: silk, plain weave; cords: silk, four element square braid, three element ply; c: silk, warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave; warp ikat; embroidered in satin, stem and straight stitches; couching; four element square braid fringe; d: plain weave.

Noh Costume (Awase kariginu, Sashinuki and Koshi obi), a–b: late Edo/early Meiji period, 19th century; c–d: Late Meiji period, late 19th century or early 20th century

A work made of linen, single knots and extended threads; (pressure mounted into fan shape).

Painted Fan, 1981

Diane Itter

A work made of two panels: linen, cotton, silk, nylon, polyester, leaf fiber (probably abaca), wool, ramie, synthetic foam, and paper; crochet variations, running stitches and knotting; blocked.

Fields, 2004

Michael Olszewski

A work made of wool, plain weave, double cloth; edged with leather binding; ground weft corner tassles.

Machinery II, 1963

Ulla-May Berggren

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