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A work made of raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by buttonhole, pearl, and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches.

Woman's Overskirt, 19th century

Kuba

A work made of raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping and stem stitches; couching; joined by buttonhole, pearl, and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches.

Woman's Overskirt, 1875/1925

Kuba

A work made of raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by pearl and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches.

Woman's Overskirt, 19th century

Kuba

A work made of raffia, plain weave; embroidered in stem stitches and running stitches cut to form pile.

Woman's Overskirt, 19th century

Kuba

A work made of silk, machine-made twist net; embroidered in chain stitches (tambour work); edged with machine-made picots.

Bonnet Veil, c. 1820

Mary N. Keith

A work made of raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping and stem stitches; couching joined by pearl stitches; edged with lateral looping stitches.

Woman's Skirt, Possibly 18th century

Kuba

A work made of linen, cotton, and metallic-foil-encased-in-polyester-film-wrapped rayon, complementary weft plain weave with twill interlackings of secondary binding warps and brocading wefts.

Planet Series #10, 1988

Lois Bryant

A work made of center field: raffia, plain weave; stamped or painted; borders: alternating bands of cotton and raffia, plain and twill weaves; resist dyed, painted, or stamped; and raffia, plain weave; embroidered with raffia in running stitches cut to form pile; all edged with raffia, plain weave with knotted, cut pompons; end: raffia, plain weave; tie-dyed; joined with raffia yarns in pearl stitches.

Man's Overskirt, 20th century

Kuba

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross, hem, satin, split, stem, and tent stitches; french knots.

Sampler, 1825

Mary Ayer

A work made of silk, plain weave; edged with plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in chain and lattice filled with twisted picot stitches. lining: silk, 4/1 satin weave.

Talisman, Ottoman dynasty (1299–1923), 1825

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

Panel, 1920s

A work made of jute, plain weave with wool and cotton yarns, knitted and woven strips forming "hooked" pile; edged with cotton, twill weave.

Lion with Palms (Rug), 1890/1900

Ebenezer Ross

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

Sampler, 1775/1800

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

Sampler, c. 1785

Elizabeth Nicholls

A work made of cotton, machine-made net; embroidered with linen in cross, half cross, darning, overcast, and wave filling stitches; edged with cotton, machine-made picots.

Bonnet Veil, 1837

Sara Russ

A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk; satin weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Fragment with Nasrid Coat of Arms, Nasrid Dynasty (1232–1492), c. 1400

Islamic

A work made of linen, satin weave with discontinuous interlocking ground wefts and supplementary brocading wefts.

The Churchmen, 1961

Dora Jung

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined.

Coverlet, 1820/30

A work made of cotton, twill weave with supplementary pile wefts forming cut velvet; block printed.

Panel, 1896

Arthur Silver

A work made of linen, satin damask weave self-patterned by ground weft floats.

Cirkuladetri, 1977

Dora Jung

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