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A work made of copper alloy.

Statuette of Horus the Child (Harpokrates), Late Period (664-332 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of oil on canvas.

New England Scenery, 1839

Thomas Cole

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "Metropolitan Baptist Church" (1953), 1953

Gordon Parks

A work made of oil on panel.

Not Convinced, Date unknown

Alfons Spring

A work made of cellophane and cotton, warp-float faced float weave backed by weft-float faced twill weave of supplementary warps and wefts.

Sample (Upholstry Fabric), 1919/33

Otti Berger

A fragment of scarved stone shows a figure in profile, with its arms raised in front of him. He wears a wig and a garment with pleated sleeves. Above him are hieroglyphics.

Fragment of a Stela of Neferhotep, New Kingdom, mid-Dynasty 19, about 1240-1195 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with wool (camelid) in stem stitches.

Border Fragment, 100 B.C./A.D. 200

Paracas

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Tête-à-tête, c. 1875–90

Emile van Marcke de Lummen

A work made of color woodblock print.

Snow at Kiyosumi Garden (Kiyosumien no yuki), February 1938

Kawase Hasui

A work made of 6 panels joined of factory-produced cotton, plain weave self-patterned by warp and weft floats; embroidered with silk floss and viscose rayon threads in chain stitches.

Adinkra Wrapper, Early 20th century (after 1904)

Asante

A work made of silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk or bast fiber, strips of plain weave and stripes of warp and weft resist dyed (double ikat), plain weave with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk or bast fiber brocading wefts; main warp fringe.

Patolu, 18th/19th century

A work made of glass beads, fabric, thread, and copper alloy.

Crown (Ade), Late 19th to mid-20th century

Yoruba

A work made of wood, fiber, beads, and pigment.

Female Face Mask (Mwana Pwo), Late 19th/early 20th century

Chokwe

A work made of wool (camelid), interlocking tapestry weave and complementary weft weave.

Fragment, A.D. 1476/1532

Chuquibamba

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

Rye (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1930

Alexei Vassilievich Babichev

A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float face of weft chevron twill weave of two color complementary wefts and inner warps.

Fragment, 13th/14th century

A work made of silk.

Fragment, 10th/11th century

A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, plain weave variation with weft-float faced 1:2 "z" twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts and with supplementary warps forming cut voided velvet.

Fragment, 13th/14th century

A work made of wool, tapestry weave; embroidered.

Fragment, Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.)/Arab period (641–969), 6th/8th century

Coptic

A work made of silk, three color complementary weft weft-float faced twill weave with inner warps.

Fragment, 15th century

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