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A work made of cisele voided cloth velvet.

Velvet, 1600/50

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

"The London & York Royal Mail Coach", 1879

Thomas Stevens

Textile border fragment in blue, green, and coral, with stripes at top, figures in the middle, and square fringe at bottom.

Fragment (Border), 100 BCE-200 CE

Nasca

A work.

Tassels, 1000-1476

A work made of wool; slit, single dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 4 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 1.0–1.5 mm weft: count: varies from 15 to 36 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.3 mm.

Large Leaf Verdure with Animals and Birds, 1525-1550

A work made of cotton, machine-made net; embroidered in cross, darning, wave filling, and a variety of buttonhole stitches.

Two Portions from a Flounce, 1850/1900

A work made of calabash, sticks, cloth, and string.

"Hairstyle of Court Attendants" Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of kerchief or shoulder scarf swatches; cotton, plain weave, printed; total of swatches: volume i: 108; volume ii: 112.

Mouchoirs (Volumes I and II), 19th century

A work made of linen and wool, plain weave and slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts.

Border, Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE), 4th century

Coptic

A work made of silk, gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 2:1 's' twill weave with supplementary patterning weft and brocading wefts tied by secondary binding warps in plain and twill interlacings.

Fragment, 14th century

A work made of cotton, copperplate printed.

Le Bain d'Amour (Love Bath) (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1825

Favre-Petitpierre et Cie.

A work.

Sampler (Map), c. 1800

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 5 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.9–1.2 mm weft: count: varies from 11 to 34 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two, three, and four z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–1.7 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.7–1.2 mm.

A Falconer with Two Ladies and a Foot Soldier, c. 1500

A work made of possibly resist dyed.

Fragment (From a Quilt), 18th century

Fauquet-Lemaître

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

Autumn, from The Seasons, 1700/20

Charles Le Brun

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Miniature Single-Handled Jar with Textile-like Pattern, 1450–1532

Inca

A work made of ink on paper; screen printed.

Textile Design, 1920s

Maria Likarz-Strauss

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 7 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.8–1.0 mm weft: count: varies from 18 to 40 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.1 mm; silk: z-ply of two s-twisted elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm.

Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses, c. 1685

Wauters Workshop

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

Industry (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1930

Darya Nikolajewna Preobrazhenskaya

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

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1761

Robert Jones

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