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A work made of cisele voided cloth velvet.

Velvet, 1600/50

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 made of silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts.

"The London & York Royal Mail Coach", 1879

Thomas Stevens

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 ceramic and pigment.

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

Inca

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 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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