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Long painted scroll, green, brown mountains, wooden house, Amida Buddha on cloud.

Legends of the Yūzū Nembutsu Sect, Kamakura period (1185–1333), 14th century

A work made of linen, plain weave; cutwork embroidered with linen in needle lace filling stitches; cut and drawn work embroidered with silk and linen in buttonhole, cross, darning and single satin stitches; and embroidered with silk in buttonhole, chain and satin stitches.

Sampler, 1795

A work made of silk, cotton and gilt strip, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet.

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1875/1925

Luigi Bevilacqua

A work made of four-panel screen; aluminum-flake pigment in polyvinyl acetate medium, and yellow alkyd varnish, on paper.

Dragon (Ryû), 1965

Shiryu Morita

A work made of aquatint, with etching, in orange-red on ivory wove paper.

Twilight with Haystacks, 1879

Camille Pissarro

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

Handkerchief, c. 1810

A work made of linen, plain oblique interlacing and wrapping.

White Scorpio, 1978

Françoise Grossen

A work made of cotton and linen, plain weaves; pieced; embroidered with cotton and linen in buttonhole, stem, and tied herringbone stitches.

Tablecloth or Bedcover, c. 1800

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

Headcloth (Iket Kepala), Late 19th century

A work made of linen and wool, single dovetailed tapestry weave with wrapping outline wefts.

Chelly Canyon, 1974

Alice Kagawa Parrott

A work made of wool, twill weave; embroidered with wool in chain, satin, and stem stitches; edged with linen and wool fringe.

Blanket, c. 1830

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

Husaari (Hussar; Furnishing Fabric), 1967

Maija Isola

A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of plain weave and plain weave derivatives with complementary patterning warp; applied tubular crossed-warp weave edging in complex bird's eye.

Overskirt (Urku), 1950/1980

Quechua

A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), stripes of plain weave and plain weave derivatives with complementary patterning warp; central stripe with extended warp creating a woven looped flap; applied tubular crossed-warp weave edging; wool-wrapped overcast stitch bottom edging and pom-pom tassles; attached strap of cotton and wool (camelid) plain weave with complementary patterning warp.

Coca Bag (Chuspa), 1950/1980

Quechua

A work made of silk, plain weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts; supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, bobbin-made tape; lined with silk, plain weave.

Chasuble, Late 13th/14th century

A work made of linen, plain weaves; pieced; cut and drawn thread work embroidered with cotton and linen in overcast and darning stitches; pulled thread work with linen in loop stitches; embroidered with cotton in cross and darning stitches; warp fringe; tapes of linen, plain weave.

Towel, 1831

Elizabeth Borgholder

A work made of silk; lampas technique.

Fragment, Ottoman Dynasty (1299–1923), 1575/1600

A work made of wool, 2:2 broken twill weave; fulled; embroidered with rayon in chain stitches; two lengths joined.

Man's Wrapper (Akunitan), 20th century

Akan

A work made of rayon, weft-faced plain weave with supplementary and brocading weft patterning.

Kente Wrapper, 1901/50

Asante

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running (twill darning) and stem stitches.

Cover, 17th century, Ottoman Dynasty (1299–1923)

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