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A work made of polyester, plain weave; screenprinted.

Mr. Zebra & Watusi (Furnishing Fabric), 1983

Ben Rose

A work made of cotton, simple looping ground; wool (camelid) cross-knit looping and cross-knit loop stitch embroidery.

Warrior Fragments, 100 BCE-200 CE

Nasca

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

Coverlet, 1820s/30s

A work made of linen, plain weave; cotton embroidery thread.

Panel, 1804/15 or 1852/70

Charles Percier

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

Intensities (Furnishing Fabric), 1956

Angelo Testa

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, rayon, silk, wool, and metal-foil-wrapped cotton in padded satin stitches; laid work and couching.

Sankt Valentin (Saint Valentine), 1996

Lissy Funk

A work made of linen, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, acetate, polyester, and silk, plain, complementary weft plain, twill, satin and satin damask weaves; printed; machine embroidered with cotton and polyester; edged with cotton, satin weave; printed.

The Woods, 1995/96

Dianne Shullenberger

A work made of cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet.

Rambouillet (Furnishing Fabric), 1990

Osborne & Little (Firm)

A work made of cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming uncut solid velvet.

Anatolia (Furnishing Fabric), 1988

Osborne & Little (Firm)

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, plain weave; underlaid with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen, silk, and cotton in padded satin, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching.

La Matinata (Morning Song), 1975

Lissy Funk

A work made of silk, stencil-printed warp and weft (heiyo kasuri) plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave.

Kimono, 1920s/30s, Taishô period (1912–1926) /Shôwa period (1926–1989)

A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts.

Fragment, 1000-1476

A work made of linen, single knots and extended threads; (pressure mounted into fan shape).

Painted Fan, 1981

Diane Itter

A work made of silk; plain weave and plain weave self-patterned by warp floats; double cloth (areas stuffed); embroidered with linen in stem stitches.

Hanging (Possibly Incomplete), 1960s-70s

Claire Zeisler

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

Panel, 1933/39

Eileen Hunter

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

Le Jardin (The Garden), c. 1925

Jean Lurçat

A work made of silk, gilt-paper-strip-wrapped silk, and peacock-feather-wrapped silk; tapestry weave.

Kesa, Edo period (1615–1868), Late 18th century

A work made of jute; knotting (flat knots); wrapped with wool; self-fringe some knotted, some wrapped; metal stand.

Symbolic Poncho, 1971

Claire Zeisler

A work made of silk and gilt-paper strip; twill weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts with couched plied silk.

Ôhi (Stole), Late 19th century, Meiji period (1868–1912)

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