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A work made of silk, velvet; cut pile; embroidered with gold.

Fragment (from Altar Frontal), 16th century

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘z’ twill weave, with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk in laidwork and couching; pieced; lining: silk, plain weave.

Uchishiki (Altar Cloth), Meiji period (1868–1912), 1870/90

A work made of cotton, polyester, and rayon, plain and twill weaves; pieced; backed with cotton and polyester, plain weave; quilted with cotton thread.

Hired Hand Quilt with Tumbling Block Pattern, 1950/2000

Amish

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

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1940s/50s

Angelo Testa

A work made of silk, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; appliquéd with gilt- and silvered-metal strips and metal-strip-wrapped silk, bobbin part lace; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-metal strips and wire coils, and metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; edged with silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave with extended weft uncut fringe, and bobbin straight lace; lined with silk, plain weave.

Chasuble, c. 1720

A work made of wool and cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps.

Panel, c. 1886

Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

A work made of silk and cotton, plain, twill, and satin weaves; some resist dyed or printed (chiné), some self-patterned, some printed, some "watered" (moiré); pieced; backed with silk, plain weave; printed; edged with silk, satin weave.

Bedcover, c. 1880

Mary Elizabeth (Motter) Tansill

A work.

Poncho, Probably late 19th/early 20th century

A work made of silk, satin, gauze and other weaves, some with brocaded patterns: 80 swatches; 53 designs on paper.

Manuscrit Lyonnais, 1841

Jules Marquis

A work made of weaver's notebook, handwritten in french, showing diagrams for weaving, swatches and drawings of looms.

Cours de Théorie pour la Tissage, 1869

P. Audibert

A work made of paper, woodcuts; 499 pages.

De Gli Habiti Antichi, et Moderni di Diuerse Parti del Mondo Libri Dve, Fatti da Cesare Vecellio et con discoursi da Lui Dichiarti. Con Privilegio", 1590

Cesare Vecellio

A work made of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, stripes of plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, and bands of two- and three-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps terminating in a plied warp fringe with bands of supplementary discontinuous bast fiber warps imitating an attached woven fringe.

Panel, Possibly 15th/16th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave; screen- or block-printed; glazed.

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1946

Serge Poliakoff

A work made of silk warp-float faced broken twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; appliquéd with silk and silvered-metal wire, plain weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; embroidered with silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and cotton in satin and split stitches; couching and padded couching; four full panels and two partial panels joined.

Cope, 1500-1525

A work made of bronze.

Fragment of a Tableau with Avatars of Vishnu, Pala period, 9th/10th century

Bowl-shaped terracotta vessel with a foot, glazed in red with black figures encircling its body.

Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), late 6th century BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper.

River Journey No. 12, 1987

Wucius Wong

A work made of ink on paper.

Winding Thoughts No. 2, 1975

Wucius Wong

A work made of ink and color on paper.

Oblivion No. 2, 1973

Wucius Wong

A work made of ink, colors, and gold on silk.

Monastic Decree, 19th century

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