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A work made of ink, on paper.

Design for a Textile or Wallpaper, 1903/32

Wiener Werkstätte

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

Psyche's Entrance into Cupid's Palace [left fragment], from The Story of Psyche, 1756/63

François Boucher

Hanging cloth depicting figure in green cloak under rainbow.

Fragment of a Hanging, 5th-6th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave; printed.

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1924

A work made of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warps in a twill interlacing and supplementary pile warps forming cut, voided velvet.

Fragment (From a Chasuble), 1475-1500

A work made of cotton, plain weave; block printed and copperplate printed; total of swatches: 1650 swatches.

Copy of the Goods of Montpellier, 1809

A work made of wool and silk; slit, dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count: 9 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of four z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.8 mm weft: count: varies from 20 to 38 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.0 mm; silk: pairs and three yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–1.0 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of s-ply of two z-spun wool elements and s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.8–1.0 mm.

The Massacre at Jerusalem from The Story of Titus and Vespasian, 1650/75

Workshop of Gerard Peemans

A work made of silk, stripes of warp-float faced satin weave and stripes of two-clor complementary weft plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and self-patterned by ground weft floats; both with supplementary brocading wefts.

Panel (Dress Fabric), 1775/1800

A work.

Fragment, 700-900

Nasca

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

Carpet, 1875-1900

A work.

Fragments, 1000-1476

Chancay

A work made of steel, brass, gilding, and textile.

Zischägge (Helmet), 1620-40

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

Hackney Coach and Cabriolet Fares/ Regulations and Acts of Parliament (Handkerchief), 1832

John Leander Bishop

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

"Ram's Horns" Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

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

The Arrival of Telemachus on Calypso's Island, from The Story of Telemachus, after 1776

Manufacture Royale d’Aubusson

Quilted cloth with an appliqued rose motif and leaf rosettes arranged in straight lines, with a border of appliqued festoons.

Roses Quilt, c. 1830/35

Letticia Keziah Vernon

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

Kids and Kites (Furnishing Fabric), 1964

Eleanor Kluck

A work made of wool and silk; slit, dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave warp: count; 6 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameter: 1.5 mm weft: count: varies from 17 to 28 wefts per cm; wool; s-ply of two z-spun elements; pairs of s-ply ol two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.5 mm; silk: s-ply of two z-twisted elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.35–1.0 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of s-ply of two z-spun wool elements and s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements; diameter: 0.8 mm.

Alexander Kneeling before Jaddus at the Gates of Jerusalem [left section] from The Story of Alexander the Great, c. 1600

Nicolaas van Orley

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying some three color complementary self-patterning ground wefts in plain interlacings.

Panel, c. 1724/27

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

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1924

Léon Bakst

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