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A work made of linen; knotting.

Border, 1575/1625

A work made of silk, plain weave with gilt-metal strip facing wefts; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin, split, raised stem, and stem stitches; couching; a: cords of silk, oblique interlacing; tassel of silk, oblique interlacing and knotting with cut fringe (no cords or tassel on b).

Amice, 17th century

A work made of silk; knotting.

Fifty-five Braid Samples, 1775-1825

A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work in buttonholed, darned, and overcast bars with buttonholed picots; embroidered in buttonhole, double running, hem, interlocking lace, overcast, and satin stitches; buttonholed couching; knotting along edge with knotted fringe.

Border, 1601/25 (macramé edge: c. 1600)

Box Stools

Box Stools, 1959

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn thread work in needle lace fillings; embroidered in bullion, buttonhole, double hem, eyelet, overcast, and satin stitches; couching; edged with knotting.

Border (Probably for Table Cloth), 1601/25

A work made of linen; knotting; with cut fringe.

Border Fringe, 1850/1900

A work made of wool and cotton, warp ikat plain weave; knotted fringe.

Shawl (Paño), 1950/84

A work made of silk, satin damask weave; edged with braid of silk, gilt-metal strips, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with two-color complementary warp weave; and fringe of silk, gilt-metal strips, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with paired warps and extended ground weft fringe; ribbons: silk, plain weave; tassels: silk, linen, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, oblique interlacing and interknotting in flat knots over silk fringe and paper core.

Dalmatic, 1675/1700

A work made of jute and linen; knotting worked off of tree branch; embellished with ceramic pieces.

Siam (Needlework), 1970

Else Regensteiner

Cord

Cord, 18th/19th century, Edo period (1615–1868)/Meiji period (1868–1912)

A work.

Portrait of Madame du Gazon, c. 1775

Louis Sené

A work.

Portrait of Miss Wortley, c. 1830

Elisabeth Smith

A work.

Portrait of Henry Stark, 18th century

Samuel Shelley

A work.

Portrait of Marquerite du Chatelet, c. 1786

Peter Edward Stroely

A work.

Portrait of a Man, c. 1800/40

John Thomas Barber Beaumont

A work.

Portrait of a Lady, c. 1730

Christian Friedrich Zincke

A work.

Portrait of a Lady, c. 1790

Pierre Violet

A work made of wool and jute; knotting; wrapping with inserted fringes.

Free Standing Yellow, 1968

Claire Zeisler

Very tall sculpture of braided, knotted, and twisted strands of hemp fabric arranged to make a cylindrical shape, with loose ends that pool out at the base.

Private Affair I, 1986

Claire Zeisler

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