Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in bullion, buttonhole, couched buttonhole, chain, hollie, and single satin stitches; darned couching.

Man's Cap (Unassembled), 1601/25

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

Handkerchief, c. 1897

A work made of linen, plain weave; appliquéd vertical strips of plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in long-armed cross and back stitches and appliquéd lower border of plain weave; embellished with pulled thread work (with silk floss) in two-sided italian cross stitch and embroidered in back stitch; edged with silk, warp-faced plain weave with ground weft cut fringe.

Altar Cloth, 17th century

A work made of cellophane and cotton, warp-float faced float weave backed by weft-float faced twill weave of supplementary warps and wefts.

Sample (Upholstry Fabric), 1919/33

Otti Berger

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, linen, and wool yarns in long-armed cross stitches; edged with wool and linen, plain weave with extended weft cut fringe.

Cushion Cover, 1601

A work made of silk, plain weave; screen printed and possibly painted.

Merkur (Mercury) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1911/13

Dagobert Peche

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

Printing Presses (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1954

Eleanor Kluck

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; printed.

Upholstery Fabric for the Fisher Theater, c. 1928

Mrs. Howard C. Blake

A work made of linen, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; embellished with sparrow feathers; wooden rods; braided warp fringe embellished with whelk egg cases and warp fringe knotted to silk.

Shield, c. 1967/85

Lenore Tawney

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

L'Escarpolette (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1789

Jean Baptiste Huet

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

Japanese Paper (Furnishing Fabric), 1948/55

L. Anton Maix Fabrics

A work made of silk, warp striped, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; two loom widths joined with silk in overcast stitches.

Mantle-cloth (cawng nak), 1925/50

Zotung Chin

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

Commemorative Bookmark "A Tribute of Affection", 19th century

Thomas Stevens

A work made of rayon, silk, and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, weft-faced six-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps.

Panel, c. 1920

Raoul Dufy

A work made of cotton, plain weave; hand-drawn wax resist dyed (batik tulis).

Tubular Skirt (Sarong), c. 1900

A work made of forty-two rectangles of cotton, plain weave; roller printed, fulled; joined by machine stitching.

Bedcover (Incomplete Cigar or Tobacco Rectangles ("Top Sheets") Quilt), 1900/10

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

Les Monuments de Grèce (Furnishing Fabric), 1800/10

Oberkampf Manufactory

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

Lazy Lines, 1950s (reproduced c. 1985)

Astrid Sampe

A work made of cotton, satin damask weave; woven on a loom with a drawloom attachment fabricated by the artist.

No to Indian Point, 1997

Ethel Stein

A work made of cotton, plain weave; resist-dyed; two panels joined.

Woman's Àdìre Eleso Wrapper, 1925/75

Yoruba

<<<50515253 >>>