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A work made of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with wool (crewel).

Panel, 20th century

A work made of cotton and linen, mixed lace known as "brussels application lace:" bobbin and needle laces applied to machine-made net.

Border, 1850/75

A work made of graphite and paint, on paper; painted.

Design for a Textile or Wallpaper, c. 1921

Wilhelm Lichtmann

A work made of silk and gilt-metal strips, warp-stripe plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts, supplementary brocading wefts, and supplementary patterning warps bound by secondary binding wefts.

Panel, c. 1749/55

A work made of silk and gilt-metal strip, warp-float faced twill weave; with supplementary patterning warps forming cut and uncut pile (velvet) with voided areas; supplementary patterning wefts and binding warp.

Panel, 1601/1725

A work.

Bedcover (Harvest Rose or Rose of Sharon Quilt), c. 1850

A work made of brocaded silk.

Fragment, 18th century

A work made of silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary brocading wefts.

Panel, 1765/70

A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "mechlin" with a snowflake mesh ground.

Border, 1725/75

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts.

Two Panels, 1775/1800

A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "mechlin" with a double torchon mesh ground.

Border, 1730s/40s

A work made of silk, plain weave variation with silk supplementary wefts and weft-float faced 1:2 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, supplementary facing and supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; edged with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts with extended supplementary patterning weft knotted uncut fringe and over extended ground weft cut fringe.

Portion (From Altar Frontal), 1501/25

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

Elfenbein (Ivory) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1927

Wiener Werkstätte

A work made of silk and rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground weft floats; interlinging: cotton, plain weave.

Nagoya Obi (Formal Belt), late Taishô period (1912–1926), c. 1925

A work made of linen, wool, cotton, and rayon, weft-faced, weft band plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe.

Rug Sample, 1956

Marianne Strengell

A work made of cotton, bobbin part lace of a type known as "honiton" with clothwork tape and plaited bar ground.

Half Shawl, 1850s/60s

A work made of brocaded plain compound cloth.

Four Fragments, 19th century

A work made of wool (camelid), stripes of warp-faced plain weave and complimentary patterning warp; attached wool (camelid) tassels.

Coca or Ceremonial Cloth (Inkuña), 1900/1950

Quechua

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

Panel, 1601/25

A work made of cotton, knitted.

Sampler, 1857

Miss Anna Warner

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