title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Frank D. Carpenter


title: Bed Curtain and Valance

creator: United States

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool yarn in bullion, long-armed cross, satin, and stem stiches; Roumanian and trellis couching

country: United States

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework (visual works)

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — CC0 via the Art Institute of Chicago Open Access programme.

credit_line: Gift from Mrs. Albert H. Barber


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Grid
Square
Line
Geometric
Coverlet
Plain weaving
Cotton (textile)
Wool (textile)
Overshot
Textile


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, New York

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed

country: New York


title: Coverlet


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Pennsylvania, Chester County

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth with main warp and extended ground weft fringe; two loom widths joined

country: Pennsylvania

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Pennsylvania
Diamond shape
Foliage
Flower
Pine tree
Line
Keys
Square
Coverlet
Cotton (fiber)
Double cloth
Wool (hair)
Weaving
Textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Louise Lutz


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning weft (overshot)

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Square
Snowflake
Grid
Geometric
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Overshot
Weaving
Plain weaving
Wool (textile)
Textile


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Virginia

country: Virginia

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Virginia
Geometric motif
Circle
Square
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Overshot
Wool (textile)
Textile


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, possibly Pennsylvania

medium: Wool and cotton, plain weave double cloth with main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken


title: Carpet

creator: Uşak, Anatolia, Republic of Türkiye

medium: Wool warp and pile, symmetrical knots

country: Turkey

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Arts of the islamic world
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet
Ushak

credit_line: Wirt D. Walker Endowment


title: Carpet

creator: Possibly Agra, India

date: Mid–17th century

medium: Cotton and wool, pain weave variation (supplementary wrapping wefts are enclosed between elements of paired ground wefts;  intervening ground wefts are single) with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots"; main warp fringe

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving - carpet
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Sarkis H. Nahigian


title: Coverlet

creator: Ira Hadsell (American, 1813-1896)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Coverlet

creator: James Van Ness (American, 1811-1872)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless


title: Coverlet

creator: Attributed to Sarah Ann Riddell (American, 1816-1853)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two selvages present

credit_line: Bequest of Marion R. Fisher


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, possibly Ohio

medium: Two loom widths joined: cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth with main warp and extended ground weft fringe; probably woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

country: Ohio

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Fern Grauer


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Moses Levitan


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, New York or Ohio

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of William A. Hoffman in honor of Mildred Davison


title: Coverlet


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Probably Pennsylvania

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary wefts in composite point twill weave (star work, multiple shaft); two loom widths joined; with attached plain weave strip with weft fringe

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Pennsylvania
Geometric motif
Diamond shape
Square
Star
Coverlet
Star work
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
American fancy
Weaving
Textile
Wool (textile)
Twill weaving

credit_line: Gift of Bernard and Judith Gordon


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; main warp and supplementary weft uncut fringe; (tied double cloth) (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation


title: Coverlet

creator: Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, United States

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hyde Holden


title: Coverlet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. O. A. Brock


title: Coverlet

creator: Attributed to Mrs. Woodcock (American)

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth T. Burnham


title: Coverlet

medium: Overshot weave.  Blue wool and white cotton.

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Square
Geometric
Circle
Star
Diamond shape
Coverlet
Overshot
Wool (hair)
Weaving
Cotton (fiber)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Miss Eleanor Keen


title: 'Honeycomb' Coverlet

medium: Cotton, undulating plain weave with areas of warp floats; two loom width joined

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric
Coverlet
Plain weaving
Cotton (fiber)
Cotton (textile)
Weaving
Textile
Saic alumni and faculty

credit_line: Gift of Else Regensteiner


title: Coverlet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph H. White, in honor of the memory of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Alexander White


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom widths; seamless

credit_line: Gift of Gordon K. Gould


title: Coverlet

creator: Matthew Rattray (American, born Scottish, 1796–1872)

medium: Wool and cotton, double cloth; two loom widths joined; woven on a loom with a Jacquard attatchment

country: Indiana

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard D. Pierce


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed

credit_line: Estate of Edna R. Meyers


title: Coverlet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R. Greening


title: Sheet

medium: Linen, plain weave

subjects:
Weaving
United state
Number
Date
Plain weaving
Linen (material)
Cross-stitching
Textile


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Square
Circle
Geometric
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Overshot
Wool (textile)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Coverlet

creator: Attributed to James Alexander (American, born Irish, 1770–1870)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; two loom widths joined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
New york
Coverlet
Double cloth
Weaving - coverlet

credit_line: Gift of the Chicago Historical Society


title: Coverlet

creator: United States

medium: Wool and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pattern weft (overshot)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Coverlet
Overshot
Wool (textile)
Weaving - coverlet

credit_line: Gift of Harriet Irwin


title: Coverlet

creator: Sarah Douglas Smith (American, active c. 1840)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined; fringed

country: Illinois

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Illinoi
Geometric motif
Geometric
Square
Circle
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Overshot
Wool (textile)
Textile
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Eunice and Agnes R. Chapman


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, New York

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Coverlet

creator: Dennis Cosley (American, 1816–1904)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless; fringed

credit_line: Gift of Frank D. Carpenter


title: Coverlet

credit_line: Gift of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Burris


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, New York, Albany County, Potter's Hollow

medium: Linen and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot)

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
New york
Geometric motif
Line
Geometric
Circle
Square
Coverlet
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Wool (textile)
Overshot
Textile

credit_line: Textile Purchase Fund


title: Coverlet

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Coverlet
Pine tree
Snowflake
Square
Tree
Double cloth
Cotton (textile)
Textile
Weaving
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving

credit_line: Mary Ann Judy Endowment


title: Bedcover

creator: Mercy Post (American, active early 19th century)

medium: Wool, twill weave; embroidered with wool in detached chain, Roumanian, satin, surface satin and stem stitches; edged with buttonhole-stitched loops and woven cut fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
New york
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Minnie E. Post


title: Coverlet

creator: Robert, Thomas, John or William Muir (American, Born Scottish, active c. 1835-1857)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth with main warp fringe; two loom widths joined; four selvages present

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Indiana
Flower
Foliage
Lattice
Diamond shape
Square
Thistle
Date
Coverlet
Cotton (fiber)
Double cloth
Plain weaving
Wool (hair)
Weaving
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Vona Niementowski


title: "Touching Star" or "Star of Bethlehem" Quilt

creator: Made by Almira Dudley Clay (American, active c. 1830)

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Pennsylvania
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Burson


title: Bedcover

creator: Portugal

date: 17th/18th century

medium: Yellow silk, satin weave; quilted in yellow silk floss through two thicknesses; reverse identical in crimson red silk, satin weave; quilted areas hand corded

country: Portugal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Needlework - quilt
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift from Mrs. William A. Kendall


title: Bedcover

creator: Ursula Whittelsey (American, 1796-1875)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; quilted and stitched in trapunto technique

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Ella R. Sanford


title: Fruit and Flowers Quilt

creator: Possibly Baltimore, United States

medium: Cotton, plain weave; quilted; appliquéd with plain weaves, some printed, some glazed, some padded; embroidered in buttonhole, chain, satin, and straight stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Flowers
Fruits
Plain weaving
Cotton (textile)
Needlework - quilt
Appliqué (technique)
Printing
Quilting
Bedcover

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Ohio, Near Marietta

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts ("summer and winter"); edged with cotton and wool, plain weave with gauze crossings and supplementary patterning wefts; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Coverlet
Summer and winter
Weaving - coverlet

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. William G. Swartchild, Jr.


title: Coverlet

creator: W. Coller (American, active c. 1850s)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; one loom width

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas B. Hanchett


title: Shawl

creator: India

medium: Wool, patchwork of double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weaves; outer border and "Harlequin" tabs of patchwork in 2:2 'S' and 'Z' twill weaves; embroidered in feather, fly, satin, and stem stitches; couching; warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John J. Abbott


title: Shawl

medium: Red cashmere with borders embroidered in multicolor silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Costume
Dress (garment)
Silk (fiber)
Clothing

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Shawl

medium: Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing


title: Shawl

medium: Interlocking twill weave; embroidered; pieced

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Costume
Weaving
Dress (garment)
Clothing

credit_line: Gift of Marie J. Rozet and Mrs. William P. Hunt through the Antiquarian Society


title: Bedspread

medium: Cotton, printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard T. Crane


title: Panel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Carpenter in memory of Lucy Keep Isham


title: Panel

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; printed

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: “Classical Medallions” Furnishing Fabric

creator: Designed by Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745–1811)

medium: Cotton; roller printed

country: France

subjects:
Weaving - printed
France
People
Women
Animal
Vase
Neoclassicism
Roller printing
Cotton (textile)
Printing
Ink
Textile
Printed textile
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Elizabeth M. Schultz Endowment Fund


title: Panel

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving - printed
Block printing


title: Shawl

medium: Interlocking twill weave

credit_line: Gift of Georganna Thomas Ives


title: Panel

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Shawl

creator: France

medium: Silk warp and wool weft, compound weave; printed; knotted silk fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fashion
Weaving - printed
Costume
Dress (garment)
Silk (fiber)
Clothing


title: Panel

creator: United States

medium: Cotton; block printed; shaded areas produced by a second printing using bleach instead of a dye

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Block printing
Weaving - printed


title: Two Panels (Joined)

creator: Produced by Hartmann et Fils (Associates with Soehnee the Elder and Co.)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed; two loom widths joined

country: Munster

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Munster
Foliage
Flower
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving - printed
Block printing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell III in memory of Dr. Lawrence S. Thurman


title: Cape

creator: England or France

medium: Silk and mohair, Pusher machine lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Lace - machine
Silk (fiber)


title: Bedcover

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered in wool yarns in chain, buttonhole and block shading stitches; French knots

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Bok through the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Coverlet

creator: New England, United States

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); three loom widths joined

country: New England

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
New england
Coverlet
Overshot
Cotton (fiber)
Weaving
Textile
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Bertram D. Kribben in memory of her mother, Helen Parsons Hilken


title: Ceremonial Skirt Cloth (dodot)

creator: India, Coromandel Coast

date: 17th century

medium: Two panels joined: cotton, plain weave; hand-drawn mordant and resist-dyed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving - printed
Ritual object

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Alsdorf Foundation; James and Marilynn Alsdorf Acquisition Fund


title: Ceremonial Skirt Cloth (dodot)

date: late 17th/18th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; resist and mordant dyed


title: Pall

creator: Spain

medium: Silk, warp-float faced broken twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; applizued with warp-float faced satin weave backed in linen, plain weave embroidered with silk in overcast, satin, split, and stem stitches; couching and French knots; painted; edged in warp-faced weft-rib plain weave with ground weft cut fringe

country: Spain

subjects:
Weaving - velvet
Spain
Coat of arms
Royalty
Foliage
Monogram
Scroll (motifs)
Silk (textile)
Weaving
Twill weaving
Couching (embroidering)
Embroidering
Plain weaving
Textile
Satin weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks McCormick and Mr. and Mrs. C. D. McCormick


title: Carpet

creator: Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Caucaus Mountains, or Persia (current day Iran)

medium: Wool and silk, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Persian" ("Sehna") knots; edged with cotton, and wool weft-faced warp-ribbed plain weave

country: Morocco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Morocco
Qashqai
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet
Weaving
African textile


title: Carpet

creator: Ushak, Anatolia, Republic of Türkiye

date: 17th‒18th century

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Turkish" (Ghiordes) knots

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Panel

creator: Portugal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Printing
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Dewey


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Sears Roebuck and Company


title: "Log Cabin" Quilt

creator: Shermans Dale, Pennsylvania, United States

medium: Cotton and wool, in a variety of weaves and printing techniques; made of pieced strips; edged with quilted plaid border; backed with cotton plain weave, small scale

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Pennsylvania
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Vernon DeYoung


title: Commedia del'Arte (Furnishing Fabric)

date: before 1784

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Dogs
Animal
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile


title: Heirloom Textile

creator: India, Gujarat

date: 15th/17th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; resist-dyed; two loom widths joined, all selvages present

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Resist dyeing

credit_line: Gift of Robert T. Coffland in memory of Mary Hunt Kahlenberg


title: Khamseh Carpet

creator: Southwest Iran

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Turkish (Ghiordes) knots"

country: Iran

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Iran
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Fell


title: Panel

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller and block printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Block printing


title: Veil

creator: Ireland, Limerick

medium: Cotton, machine-made net; embroidered in cross, darning, crossed back, eyelet, herringbone, wave filling, overcast, and running stitches; edged in machine-made picot edging

country: Ireland

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ireland
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Bentley Walker


title: Tablecloth or Bedcover probably titled "Ragged Poppy"

creator: Designed by John Scarratt Rigby (English, 1833–1914)

medium: Silk, plain weave; block printed

country: London

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
London
Flower
Arts and craft movement
Silk (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving - printed
Block printing
Costume
British

credit_line: Alexander Demond Fund


title: Blanket or Rug

creator: Navajo (Diné)

date: Late 19th century

medium: Wool, dovetailed tapestry weave; twined edges; (remnants of) corner knotted tassel

country: Navajo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Navajo
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Native american
America
Indigenous
North american
Native north american


title: Couch Cover

creator: Italy, Sardinia

medium: Hemp and wool, plain weave

country: Sardinia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Sardinia
Folk art
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Panel

creator: England

medium: Cotton and linen, twill weave; embroidered with wool yarns in satin, chain, Bohkara couching (or laid Oriental couching), buttonhole, speckling, outline, stem, stroke, coral, rococo, fishbone, slanted stem, chain, link powdering, running, and plain stitches; pattern couching; fillings made with detached buttonhole, basket, Roumanian, double knot and rope stitches; French knots

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Corals & anemones
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Banner

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson


title: Banner

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Carpet

medium: Wool and cotton, plain weave; with brocaded areas of supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" and embroidered filling of contiguous rows of stem stitches, countered in direction in alternate pairs of rows; embroidered outline stitches around pile areas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Wool (textile)
Needlework - carpet
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Wenchang, Stellar God of Literature

date: 16th century

medium: Ivory

country: China

subjects: Ivorie China

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights_statement: Public Domain — released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) via The Met Open Access.

credit_line: Alfred W. Hoyt Collection, Bequest of Rosina H. Hoppin, 1965


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Linen and silk, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1913


title: Louis-Joseph le Lorrain (?), pl. IV from "Recueil de caricatures"

creator: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of E. John Bullard and funds from various donors, 2014


title: Pottery Whistle

date: before 1889

medium: Pottery

country: Mexican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Mexican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Gold earring with head of a bull

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Food bowl

medium: Stoneware painted with cobalt and amber enamels (Mizoro ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975


title: Fan

date: fourth quarter 18th century

medium: ivory, mother-of-pearl, paper, gouache, paint, metal

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Collection Fund and the Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 1952


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926


title: Carpet

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wool (warp, weft and pile); symmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: Altar with the Resurrection of Christ, plate 2 from "Nouveaux dessins d'autels à la romaine"

creator: Jean Le Pautre

medium: Etching; first edition

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Ono no Dofu as a Young Man Watching a Frog Jumping at a Willow Branch

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

subjects:
Print
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Equal-Arm Brooch

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Copper alloy, glass beads, wax

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Untitled (Portrait of a Young Blonde Woman)

creator: Erzsébet Korb

medium: Oil on paperboard

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Salgo Trust for Education, 2025


title: Teabowl and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold D. Shattuck, 1961


title: [Picnic Near a Stream]

creator: Horatio Ross

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: River Crossing

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching with drypoint, burin and roulette; fifth state of five

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Algernon S. Sullivan, 1919


title: Man's Sarong (Kain Lepas)

medium: Cotton, gold wrapped silk thread

country: Sumatra

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sumatra
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th century

country: Langobardic or Byzantine (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-gold
Langobardic or byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Wallet

creator: Chas. Arms

medium: Leather

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Bequest of Sarah Raymond Miles, 1951


title: Bonnet

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ernest F. Walton, 1959


title: Portrait of Angelica Catalani de Valabrègue

creator: Antoine Louis François Sergent Marceau

medium: Pen and gray ink with brush and brown washes

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Length of block printed linen

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Piece

date: 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of H.A. Elsberg, 1928


title: Terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Dolon Painter

country: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, lucanian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century BCE/early 5th century BCE


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven


title: Buckle

date: late 15th century

medium: Steel

country: German

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
German

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Two deformed heads

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Engraving (rejected)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: A Gathering of Holy Men of Different Faiths

creator: Mir Kalan Khan

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2009


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: Mariotto, from Scelta d'Alcuni Miracoli e Grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze (Selection of Some Miracles and Graces that Occurred in the Church of the Annunziata in Florence)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Bertha

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937


title: Single Spout Bottle in Melon Form

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: Tall Clock

creator: Gawen Brown

medium: Mahogany, chestnut, white pine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Eddystone, English Channel, from the Lighthouses series (N119) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Loom Weight

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Winter Scene: Removing Stumps, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Terrier. Julien, François. 45 ans, né à Saint-Laurent (Mayenne). Menuisier. Anarchiste. 14/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Two Polish horsemen with their horses facing left, from "Figures on Horseback" (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of receipt of apparel for divinities, Ebabbar archive

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Fruit basket (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain-export Fruits

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


title: Jasper intaglio: Horned Pan

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Jasper

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Powell, St. Louis, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Coverlet

creator: William Craig, Sr. (American, 1800–1880)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed

country: Indiana

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Kentucky, Warren County

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined; fringed

country: Kentucky

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Kentucky
Geometric
Square
Geometric motif
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Weaving
Plain weaving
Overshot
Wool (textile)
Textile
Fringed


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; main warp fringe; two loom widths joined

country: Decatur County


title: Coverlet

creator: United States

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined

country: United States

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving - coverlet
Overshot
Wool (textile)


title: Coverlet

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot) and knotted main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Coverlet
Overshot
Wool (textile)
Weaving - coverlet

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. William G. Swartchild, Jr.


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller printed

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Coverlet

creator: Abram William Van Doren (American, 1808-1884)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; cotton, machine-knit fringe; two loom widths joined; all selvages present


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Pennsylvania, Bucks County

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); knotted main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined

country: Bucks County


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, New York, Genessee County

medium: Cotton and wool, woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined

country: New York


title: Carpet

creator: Caucasus

date: mid–18th/19th century

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as “Ghiordes knots”

country: Caucasus

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Caucasus
Plain weaving
Wool (textile)
Knotting
Weaving
Weaving - carpet

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Fell


title: "Tulip" or "Cotton Bolls" Quilt

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: "Cherry Basket" Quilt

date: About 1860


title: "Princess Feather" or "Ostrich Plume" Quilt

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave and cotton, plain weave roller printed; quilted with cotton; edged with cotton, plain weave roller printed; Backing: cotton, plain weave; padding: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework - quilt
Appliqué (technique)
Quilting
Roller printing
Bedcover


title: Rug

date: After 1861

medium: Linen, plain weave with cotton and wool strips of plain and twill weaves forming "hooked" pile; edged with cotton, twill weave tape

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - rug

credit_line: Bequest of William McCormick Blair


title: Shawl

creator: India

medium: Interlocking twill weave; small black center; multicolor woven and pieced

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frances Low Corbett


title: Bedcover

creator: Greece, Epirus Province or Ionian Islands

date: 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain and running (pattern darning) stitches; edged with linen, woven fringe; four loom widths joined

country: Greece

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Greece
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry


title: Rug

medium: Variety of fibers, plain weave with variety of fibers, yarns, felted, knitted, oblique interlaced and/or woven strips, forming "hooked" pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Weaving - rug


title: Square Shawl

medium: Wool, double interlocking twill tapestry weave, woven in rectangular sections; attached "Harlequin" tabs: pieced twill weaves; embroidered in back and satin stitches; laid work and couching; warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Henry H. Getty


title: Needlework Rug

creator: English

date: 18th century

medium: Wool, canvas, linen

subjects:
Needlework - rug
England
Flower
Floral motif
Medallion
Foliage
Square
Embroidering
Wool (textile)
Textile
Embroidery
Linen (material)
Canva

credit_line: Gift of Neville and John Bryan


title: Rug

medium: Jute, plain weave with cotton and wool yarn, felted, knitted and woven strips forming "hooked" pile; edged with cotton, twill weave


title: Sari

date: 18th/19th century

medium: Red silk and gold

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving
Costume
Dress (garment)
Silk (fiber)
Clothing
Sari (garment)

credit_line: Bequest of Henry C. Schwab


title: Carpet

creator: Spain

medium: Wool and linen, plain weave with supplementary warps forming cut pile; ten strips joined

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet
Rug


title: Panel

creator: France

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving - printed
Printed textile


title: Shawl

creator: Made in China for the Philippines market

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk in satin, single satin, and stem stitches; attached painted ivory faces; edged with silk, oblique interlacing with wrapped, knotted, cut fringe

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Costume

credit_line: Louise Lutz Endowment


title: Valance

creator: China

medium: Top: Silk and cotton, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings; bottom: silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings; three panels joined; lined with silk and cotton, 7:1 satin damask weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Bequest of Rowena Marsh Abbott


title: Shawl

medium: Cashmere wool composed of many small pieces of embroidered plain simple twill

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Hanging

creator: Portugal

medium: Face and backing: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered through both thicknesses with cotton, in chain stitch; French Knots; fringe border: silk, plain weave with weft fringe

country: Portugal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Flower
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (textile)
Colcha stitch
Embroidering

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Needlework and Textile Guild in memory of Mrs. Harold M. Keele


title: Cover (Needlework)

creator: Susannah Lewis (American, active c. 1850–1900)

medium: Cotton, twill weave; embroidered with wool in a variety of stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework (visual works)
Women artist

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken


title: Shawl

medium: Wool, patchwork of 2:2 twill weaves; embroidered in back, fishbone, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Ella R. Sanford


title: Bed Curtain

creator: Greece, Dodecanese Islands, Patmos, or Cyclades Islands, Pholegandros

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in buttonhole, double running, running (pattern darning), satin, or stem stitches; joined by silk, needle-made inserts of oblique interlacing; four loom widths joined


title: Incomplete Carpet

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts, and with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; edged with silk, weft-float faced 1:7 satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; four panels joined

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
China
Qing
Weaving
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Bed Curtain

creator: Greece, Cyclades or Dodecanese Islands

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running (pattern darning) stitches; edge finished with buttonhole and four-sided stitches; needle-made inserts of oblique interlacing; four loom widths joined


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered through both layers with wool in back, bullion, buttonhole, chain, and satin stitches; laid work and couching; edged with cotton tapes with stripes of plain weave and of 3:1, 1:1 alternating float weaves with both single and paired wefts; two widths joined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor in honor of Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan


title: Chief Blanket (Third Phase)

creator: Navajo (Diné)

medium: Wool, plain weave with "lazy lines" and dovetail tapestry weave; warp and weft twining; corner tassels

country: Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah

subjects: Navajo nation, arizona, new mexico, & utah

credit_line: Bequest of Alan R. Brodie


title: Bedcover

creator: Germany

medium: Cotton, areas of plain knitting joined by plain crochet; plain crochet border

country: Germany

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Germany
Cotton (textile)
Knitting
Needlework (visual works)
Crocheting

credit_line: Gift of Else Regensteiner


title: Bedcover

creator: Executed by Rebecca C. Hayward

medium: Wool, broken twill weave; fulled; embroidered with wool and silk in back, individual back, looped back (cut to form pile), chain, feather, fly, long-armed cross, satin, individual satin, and stem stitches; lined with cotton, plain weave; roller and possibly block printed; glazed

country: Massachusetts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Massachusett
Wool (textile)
Twill weaving
Silk (textile)
Cotton (textile)
Embroidering
Stitching
Block printing
Needlework - quilt
Women artist

credit_line: Director's Capital Campaign Endowment


title: Bedcover Depicting the Five Senses

medium: Silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk floss in chain stitches; backed and lined with silk, plain weave; edged with silk, warp-faced plain weave with extended ground weft fringe; silk tassels

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Women
Circle
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering
Plain weaving

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Shawl

medium: Wool, patchwork of double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weaves; outer border and "Harlequin" tabs of patchwork in 2:2 'S' twill weaves; embroidered in detached chain, flat, fly, Roumanian, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Daniel Van Degrift


title: Bedspread

creator: United States

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton, knitted; fringed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework (visual works)
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ervin A. Pahlke


title: Bedcover

creator: Mexico

medium: Wool, plain weave; embroidered with wool in cross, running, double running, and stem stitches; three panels joined; two selvages present

country: Mexico

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Mexico
Wool (textile)
Folk art
Needlework (visual works)
Latin american

credit_line: Gift of Avrina Pugh


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton, knitted; edged with knotted fringe

credit_line: Gift of Catherine Bermingham


title: Bedspread

medium: Embroidered with silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. James Ward Thorne


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton and silk, plain weaves; some padded; embroidered with silk in chain and satin stitches; quilted with cotton thread through cotton batting and cotton, plain weave backing; edged with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework - quilt
Needlework (visual works)
Appliqué (technique)

credit_line: Gift of Ann Calhoun Dienner


title: Bedcover

creator: United States, probably New York

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with cotton yarns in back, chain, cross, overcast, running (pattern darning) and surface satin stitches; main warp fringe; two loom widths joined

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
New york
Indigo
Plain weaving
Needlework - quilt
Cotton (textile)
Embroidering

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society


title: Bedcover

creator: Spanish or Portugal

medium: Cotton, twill weave; embroidered with wool (crewel) in satin, link powdering and stem stitches; also embroidered with silk and metal strips wound around a silk fiber core in split and stem stitches; couching; bobbin lace border

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton, crochet; knotted cut fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Crocheting
Cotton (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Needlepoint (needleworking)
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Lenore Tawney


title: Carpet

creator: Ushak, Anatolia, Republic of Türkiye

medium: Wool, plain weave (with variations) with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Turkish" (Ghiordes) knots

country: Turkey

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Turkey
Wool (textile)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Clark W. Finnerud


title: Garden rug

creator: Caucasus, Kazakhstan

medium: textile

country: Kazakhstan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Kazakhstan
Kazak
Weaving - rug
Caucasian
Central asian
Asian
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Dave Chapman


title: Bedcover

creator: Sarah J. Harden (American, active c. 1855)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave and cotton, plain weave; roller printed; quilted; edged with cotton, plain weave

country: Ohio

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ohio
Plain weaving
Cotton (textile)
Needlework - quilt
Appliqué (technique)
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Gerald W. Adelmann in memory of Lois Reed Adelmann


title: Bedcover

creator: Indo-Portuguese

date: Late 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave embroidered in silk floss in chaing, short, long and brick stitches; original silk fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Bedcover

creator: Made by the great-great grandmother, Jane Bolas Vaughan, or great-great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Ottiwell Vaughan, of Edward Goldisborough Chambre Vaughan, 1834–1914

date: late 17th/early 18th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; underlaid with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, chain, open chain, leaf, Roman, Roumanian, satin and stem stitches; edged with linen, plain weave tape; two loom widths joined

country: Shropshire

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Shropshire
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Women artist


title: Bedcover

creator: Portugal or Spain

medium: Silk; appliqued; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Rug

medium: Jute, plain weave with cotton, linen and wool yarn, felted, knitted and woven strips forming "hooked" pile; edged with wool and cotton, oblique interlacing

country: United States

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - rug

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Tablecloth or Bedcover probably titled "Ragged Poppy"

creator: Designed by John Scarratt Rigby (English, 1833–1914)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

country: London

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
London
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Kelvyn G. Lilley Memorial Fund


title: Rug

medium: Jute, plain weave with cotton and wool yarns, felted, knitted and woven strips forming "hooked" pile; edged with cotton and wool, oblique interlacing


title: Carpet with Wreath Design

creator: Alcaraz, Spain

date: Late 16th century

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Spanish knots"

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard E. Danielson and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: "Pumpkin Blossom" Quilt

creator: Possibly made by Mrs. George F. Gale

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd; embroidered in satin, chain and running stitches; machine stitch quilted; edged

country: Michigan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Michigan
Flowers
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Palampore

creator: Eastern India

medium: Cotton, plain weave; painted; mordant and resist-dyed

country: India

subjects:
Palampore
India
Tree of life
Bird
Floral
Cobra
Peacock
Cotton (fiber)
Weaving
Weaving - printed
Textile
Weaving - painted
Mordant
Painting
Resist dyeing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. E. Warren Everett


title: "Roses and Buds" or Bride's Quilt

creator: Ohio, United States

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ohio
Roses
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover


title: Ceremonial Hip Wrapper (Dodot)

creator: Indonesia, Central Java

date: Late 19th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; hand-drawn wax resist dyed (batik tulis); two panels joined

country: Java

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Java
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Julius Rosenwald


title: "Wedding Quilt"

creator: Kentucky, United States

medium: Cotton, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; quilted with raised areas (trapunto)

country: Kentucky

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Kentucky
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Lawrence L. Belles


title: "Feathered Edge Star" Quilt

creator: United States

medium: quilted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan


title: "Lend and Borrow" Quilt

medium: Cotton, plain weave; pieced with cotton, plain weave, printed; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave; red and green on white ground


title: Bedcover

creator: Pieced by Rebexy Gray (American, active c. 1850)

country: Virginia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Virginia
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hyde Holden


title: Peony Quilt

medium: appliqué, quilting


title: Coverlet

creator: William Craig, Sr. (American, 1800–1880)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed

country: Indiana

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Emma Stevens


title: Bedcover (Cherry Baskets)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave, printed; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Overshot
Weaving - coverlet
Weaving
Wool (textile)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot) and main warp fringe; two loom widths joined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Coverlet
Overshot
Weaving - coverlet

credit_line: Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz Endowment


title: "Sunburst" or "Feathered Edged Star" Quilt

medium: textile


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless; fringed


title: Genealogy Quilt

creator: Designed and executed by Catharine L. Clark (American, active c. 1896)

medium: Wool, cotton, and silk, twill weaves and plain weave cut solid velvet, some stamped; pieced; embroidered with silk in back, single back, buttonhole, chain, detached chain, feather, double feather, herringbone, satin, single satin, and stem stitches; backed stitch couching; edged with cotton, plain weave; backed with cotton, satin weave; sewn with cotton thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Massachusett
Twill weaving
Wool (textile)
Needlework - quilt
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Cotton (textile)
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Shelly Zegart


title: "Wool-Drawings" Quilt

medium: Wool, cotton and silk, felt and plain and twill weaves, some self-patterned, some with supplementary pile wefts forming cut pile, some fulled; one embroidered with rayon; couching of oblique interlacing tape; pieced; backed with cotton, plain weaves, some self-patterned, some fulled, some roller-printed; embroidered with wool in feather stitches; edged with wool, twill weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ohio
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Couching (embroidering)
Silk (textile)
Felt
Cotton (textile)
Twill weaving
Embroidering
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover


title: Bedcover in the Arts and Crafts Style

creator: England

date: Early 20th century (based on 17th–century English designs)

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, satin, and stem stitches; French knots; two loom widths joined

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Arts and craft movement
Silk (textile)
Enameling
Knotting
Needlework (visual works)
British

credit_line: Louise Lutz Endowment


title: Bedcover

creator: France

date: 19th century

medium: Muslin; embroidered with cotton in tambour stitch and drawn work

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework - quilt


title: Carpet

creator: Egypt, possibly Cairo

date: Early 16th century, Mamluk period (1250–1517)

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Persian (Sehna) knots"

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet

credit_line: Gift of Edward E. Ayer Fund, Samuel M. Nickerson Fund, The Orientals, and Mrs. John Landreth


title: La Pêche (Fishing)

creator: Variation of design by Francois Boucher

medium: Wool and silk, slit tapestry weave

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
France
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Marshall Field and Company


title: Hanging Portière or Panel for a Bed

creator: Possibily Designed by Gobelins Factory or René Beauvais

medium: Cotton, wool, and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
France
Bird
Animal
Column
Flower
Greek
Mythology
Swag
Urns
Cotton (textile)
Tapestry weaving
Silk (textile)
Wool (textile)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of the Dino J. D'Angelo Family


title: Shawl

creator: India

medium: Wool, patchwork of double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weaves; outer border and "Harlequin" tabs of patchwork in 2:2 'S' twill weaves; embroidered in detached chain, flat, satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Queen
Royal personage
Royalty
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Theresa Irwin Rew


title: "Nine Patch" Quilt

medium: Cotton, plain weaves; printed; pieced; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave; printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Quilting
Cotton (textile)
Printing
Plain weaving
Piecing (needleworking)
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young


title: "Album Patch" or "Signature" Quilt

creator: Berks, Lebanon and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States

medium: Cotton, various plain weaves; most printed; pieced; quilted; inscribed; backed with cotton, plain weave; pieced; printed; edged with cotton, plain weave; printed

country: Pennsylvania

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Pennsylvania
Quilting
Cotton (textile)
Printing
Plain weaving
Piecing (needleworking)
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover


title: Panel Formerly Part of the Wall Covering in the Deuxième Salon des Grands Appartements of the Palais de Meudon (Château Neuf) (Empire style)

creator: Woven by Lacostat et Trollier

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill interlacings; six panels joined

country: Lyon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lyon
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Brocading
Weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society


title: Carpet

medium: Wool, plain weave, tied and free double cloth; plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and three-color complementary ground wefts; two loom widths joined

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
United state
Double cloth
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Textile


title: Square Shawl

medium: Wool, double interlocking 2:2 twill tapestry weave, woven in large sections; corner tabs of 2:2 twill weave; embroidered in stem stitches; warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Carpenter


title: Cover

creator: Italy

date: Late 16th/early 17th century

medium: 30 squares and 26 triangles of linen, plain weavw; pieced; embroidered with linen in overcast stitches and laid work and couching; cut and drawn work with inserts of needle lace; and 42 squares of linen, needle lace; pieced; edged with linen, bobbin lace

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Linen (material)
Embroidering
Plain weaving
Piecing (needleworking)
Laid work
Couching (embroidering)
Drawnwork
Lace making
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: The Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment and Textile Purchase Fund


title: Chief Blanket (Third Phase)

creator: Navajo (Diné)

medium: Wool, single interlocking tapestry weave; twined edges; corner tassels

country: Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah

subjects: Navajo nation, arizona, new mexico, & utah

credit_line: Robert Allerton Endowment


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed; pieced; backed with cotton, plain weave, pieced; with binding of cotton, plain weave; block printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland Fund


title: Mosaic or Honeycomb Quilt

medium: Wool, cotton, and silk, plain, twill, and satin weaves; some with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; some self-patterned; some warp dyed; and some printed; pieced; backed with wool, plain weave; printed; cotton batting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Wool (textile)
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Dellora A. Norris


title: "Log Cabin" Quilt

medium: Silk, pieced plain weaves and cut solit velvet; backed with silk, plain weave; edged with linen, bobbin straight lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework (visual works)
Needlework - quilt
Silk (fiber)
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Dewey, Jr.


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Pennsylvania, Lehigh County

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; full loom width; seamless; fringed

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Florence Irene Liebl


title: Coverlet

creator: Attributed to James Alexander (American, born Irish, 1770–1870)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on draw loom

country: New York

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
New york
Patriotism
Tower
Medallion
General
Fourth of july
Eagle
Column
Agriculture
Coverlet
Double cloth
Cotton (fiber)
Plain weaving
Wool (hair)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of the Chicago Historical Society


title: Palampore

creator: Eastern India

medium: Cotton, printed; painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving - printed
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Panel

creator: Germany, Lithuania or Western Russia

medium: embroidered

country: Germany

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Germany
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Sidney A. Kent Fund


title: Bedcover

creator: Greece, Epirus Province or Ionian Island

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in chain, crossed back, cross, running (pattern darning), satin and stem stitches; joined by silk, needle-made inserts and linen, bobbin straight lace tape; four loom widths joined

country: Greece

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Greece
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry


title: Bedcover

creator: Greece, Ionian Islands or Epirus Province

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, chain, split, and stem stitches; plied warp fringe; four loom widths joined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Greece
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)

creator: Japan

medium: 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

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Japanism
Paper (fiber product)
Liturgical - buddhist
Needlework (visual works)
Meiji
Silk (fiber)
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays


title: Chief Blanket (Third Phase)

medium: Wool, dovetail tapestry weave with "lazy lines"; twined warp ends and selvages; corner tassels

credit_line: Bequest of Alan R. Brodie


title: Chief Blanket (Third Phase)

medium: Wool, single interlocking and slit tapestry weaves with "lazy lines"; twined warp ends and selvages


title: Moqui-Style Sarape

medium: Wool, single interlocking tapestry weave; two selvages present

country: Navajo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Navajo
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Native american
America
Indigenous
North american
Native north american

credit_line: Through prior acquisitions of Louis A. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, The Alsdorf Foundation, Joseph P. Antonow, Edward E. Ayer in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson, Herbert Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Chapman, Sylvia Coppersmith in memory of Leila Rosen, Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson, Domenic DiPiero, Maurice D. Galleher Endowment, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin, Mrs. Maurice H. Mandelbaum as a gift of her family, Mr. and Mrs. Everett McNear; Mr. and Mrs. Michael Newbury, Dr. H. Van de Waal, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus and Suzette Morton Zurcher


title: Curtain

creator: England

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Needlework (visual works)


title: Bedcover

creator: New York, United States

medium: Wool, twill weave; embroidered with wool yarns in back, individual back, chain, running, satin, and stem stitches; four selvages present; two loom widths joined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
New york
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Hanging

creator: Portugal or India

medium: Linen, plain weave, in two thicknesses; cotton batting; quilted; embroidered in colored silk and metal strips wound around a silk fiber core in chain, satin, split, stem and couching stitches

country: Portugal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Hanging

creator: France or Italy

medium: Linen, plain weave; cutwork embroidered with linen in buttonhole, twisted buttonhole, and darning stitches; twist bars; embroidered in interlooped chain stiches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Plain weaving
Linen (material)
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Bedcover

creator: Indo-Portuguese

medium: Linen, plain weave; in two thicknesses; quilted; embroidered in silk in chain stitch; attached fringe on all four edges: warp-faced, weft rib plain weave; with weft fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Needlework - quilt
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Unifinished 'Friendship Offering' Quilt

creator: Probably Connecticut, United States

medium: Cotton, plain weave; glazed; some inscribed with sepia ink; cotton, plain weave; roller printed; and center of linen, plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; embroidered with wool in stem stitches

country: United States

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Carolyn Hammond


title: Bedcover

creator: United States, New York, Ithaca

medium: Silk and cotton, variety of plain, satin and twill weaves, some with supplementary and/or self-patterning elements; pieced; quilted; edged with silk, warp-float faced satin weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Needlework - quilt
Quilting
Twill weaving
Satin weaving
Cotton (textile)

credit_line: Gift of Gerald W. Adelmann


title: Carpet

creator: Lahore, Mughal Empire (current day Pakistan)

date: Late 17th century, Mughal Empire (1526-1799)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave variation with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Persian" (Sehna) knots

country: Lahore

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lahore
Weaving - carpet
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of John R. Thompson


title: "Marseilles" Quilt

creator: United States

medium: Cotton, plain weave, quilted in running stitch; backed with cotton, plain weave; cotton batting

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: "Sunburst" or "Modern Star" Quilt

medium: quilted, pieced, lining


title: Flowers and Fruit Quilt

date: Probably 1847

medium: Cotton, plain weave, pieced and quilted; aplliquéd with cotton, plain weave, printed; embroidered in wool threads in a variety of stitches; backed with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Flowers
Fruits
Quilting
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Textiles Collection


title: Cover

creator: Made in Bengal, India, for the Portuguese market

medium: Three panels joined: silk (tussar), plain weave; embroidered with cotton in chain (tambour work) stitches; lining: cotton, plain weave; edging: silk, plain weave with looped and plied warp fringe; attached silk and cotton tassels at all four corners

country: India

subjects:
India
Needlework (visual works)
Floral motif
Cartouche
Circle
Flower
Foliage
Geometric
Medallion
Vine
Cotton (fiber)
Embroidering
Silk (fiber)
Textile
Embroidery
Plain weaving

credit_line: Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment


title: "Wedding Sampler" Quilt

creator: New Hampshire, United States

medium: Cotton, plain weaves; some roller printed; pieced; padded with cotton, backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted with cotton

country: New Hampshire

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
New hampshire
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework - quilt
Piecing (needleworking)
Roller printing
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Shelly Zegart


title: "Slashed Star" or "Rose Window" Quilt

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with plain weaves; roller printed; backed with plain weave; quilted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Roses
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover


title: "Pomegranate" Quilt

medium: Quilted and appliqued


title: "The Circuit Rider's Quilt"

creator: Made by members of the Class of Low Chapel, United Brethren Church

date: About 1868

medium: Appliquéd quilt; dyed and printed cotton plain weave fabrics; cotton thread and metallic braid embroidery; ink signatures

country: Ohio

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ohio
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover


title: Coverlet

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot) and main warp fringe

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Coverlet
Stripe
Rectangle
Square
Overshot
Wool (textile)
Textile
Weaving
Plain weaving

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Coverlet

creator: Jacob Impson (American, c. 1802-1869)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; two loom widths joined; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Ohio

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts (Beiderwand); woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed

credit_line: Gift of Richard Shuflin


title: Panel

creator: Spain

medium: Silk, damask weave; fringe and lining

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick through the Antiquarian Society


title: Hanging (Depicting the Story of Esther and King Ahasuerus) (Needlework)

creator: France or England

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and wool in tent and cross stitch

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Religious scene
Linen (material)
Needlepoint (needleworking)
Wool (textile)
Silk (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Plain weaving
Embroidering

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Jonathan and Mrs. Alexandra Zizmor


title: "Nine Patch" Quilt

creator: Mid-Atlantic or New England region, United States

medium: Cotton, various plain weaves; block-printed and roller-printed; pieced; lined with cotton, various plain weaves; block-printed; pieced; quilted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Cotton (textile)
Quilting
Plain weaving
Block printing
Piecing (needleworking)
Lining (process)
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young


title: Bridal Bedcover

creator: Istanbul, Republic of Türkiye

date: about  1877

medium: Five panels joined: silk, satin weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work and couching over card; lined with cotton, twill weave

country: Turkey

subjects:
Turkey
Needlework (visual works)
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Twill weaving
Lining (process)
Laid work
Embroidering
Couching (embroidering)
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Cotton (textile)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of anonymous


title: Bedcover

creator: United States, New England or Mid-Atlantic

medium: Three panels joined: cotton, plain weave; block-printed-resist-dyed; backed with linen, plain weave; edged with cotton, plain weave tape; block-printed-resist-dyed; quilted with linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Weaving - printed
Weaving - coverlet

credit_line: Robert Allerton Endowment


title: "A Wreath of Roses" Quilt

creator: Sarah Slane (American, 1825–1923)

medium: Cotton, plain weave, pieced; appliqued with cotton, plain weave, printed, attached in buttonhole stitch; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave

country: Illinois

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Illinoi
Roses
Needlework (visual works)
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Ruth E. Perkins


title: Bedcover

medium: Four panels joined: cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in running, back, herringbone, long and short, chain, and filling stitches; interlining: cotton wadding; lining: five panels joined: cotton, plain weave; pieced; applied silk fringe; attached silk tassels at corners

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Weaving
Needlework - quilt
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Bedcover Showing the Landing of Columbus

creator: Italy or France

medium: Silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk floss foremost in satin and stem stitches; lace border on three sides; bobbin lace

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Star Variation Quilt

creator: Patched and quilted by Margaret Blean Work (American, 1811-1887)

medium: Cotton, plain weave and plain weaves; printed; pieced; edged with cotton, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weaves; pieced; cotton batting; quilted

country: Pennsylvania

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Pennsylvania
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Mary Work


title: Bedcover

creator: France

medium: Muslin embroidered with cotton in tambour and satin stitches accented with drawn work

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Bedcover (Star Pattern)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; pieced with cotton, plain weave, printed; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Quinlan


title: Shawl

creator: India

medium: Wool, patchwork of double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weaves; outer border and "Harlequin" tabs of patchwork in 2:2 'S' and 'Z' twill weaves; embroidered in flat, satin, and stem stitches; couching; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. B. C. Lingle through the Antiquarian Society


title: Altar Frontal

date: 15th century (needlework: 17th century)

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Altar
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Carpet

creator: Southern Caucasus, Karabagh

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Turkish (Ghiordes) knots"

country: Caucasus

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Caucasus
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet
Weaving


title: Kesa

creator: Japan

date: Early or mid–19th century, Edo period (1789–1868)

medium: Silk and gilt-paper strip; twill and satin weaves with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Late edo
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays


title: Kesa

medium: Hiri, yô, jô: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; shiten: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, twill weave with plain interlacing of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; lining: silk, satin damask weave


title: Kesa

medium: Hiri, yô, jô: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘Z’ twill  weave with 1:2 ‘Z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten and niten: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘Z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Late edo
Paper (fiber product)
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Shawl

creator: Eastern India

medium: Green cashmere center with wide multicolor borders at the ends and narrower ones at the sides

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing

credit_line: Gift of Henry H. Getty


title: Altar Frontal

date: 16th century

medium: Red velvet embroidered with gold and silver; bands and panels embroidered with gold and colored silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Altar
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)
Ritual object


title: Long Shawl

medium: Wool, double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weave, woven in rectangular sections; attached "Harlequin" tabs of pieced twill weaves; embroidered in darning, flat, and stem stitches; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George N. Culver through the Antiquarian Society


title: Long Shawl

medium: Wool, pieced double interlocking twill tapestry weave; embroidered in flat, overcast, running, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; ends of pieced warp chevron twill and twill weaves; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving


title: "Pincushion and Burrs" or "Square and Swallows" Quilt

creator: United States

medium: Cotton, plain weave, in parts (block?) printed; pieced; backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted and stitched in trapunto technique

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Central Medallion Quilt with "Yankee Puzzle" or "Hour Glass"  Borders

creator: Mary Jones (American, active late 18th/early 19th century)

date: Central medallion embroidered 1795; pieced and quilted about 1750-1810

medium:
Center: cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk, cotton, and wool in buttonhole, chain, cross, single cross, feather, Roumanian, satin, single satin, stem, and twined double running stitches.
Squares: cotton, cotton and linen, and linen, plain weaves; block, copperplate, and roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt
Silk (fiber)
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society


title: Shawl

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 19th century

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Dress (garment)
Silk (fiber)
Clothing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward J. Bermingham


title: Shawl

medium: White wool with multicolor borders; embroidered with multicolor wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Carpet

creator: Canada

medium: Wool, plain weave; double cloth

country: Canada

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Canada
Flower
Foliage
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Double cloth
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cahoon and Mr. and Mrs. Keith Myers


title: "Star of Bethlehem" Quilt

creator: Possibly Newburgh, New York, United States

medium: Cotton, various plain weaves; printed; some calendarized and glazed; pieced; lined with cotton, plain weave; pieced; batting: cotton; quilted

country: Newburgh

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Newburgh
Quilting
Cotton (textile)
Printing
Plain weaving
Piecing (needleworking)
Lining (process)
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young


title: Bedcover

creator: United States or England

medium: Cotton, variety of plain weaves; some roller printed; some glazed; pieced; quilted with cotton thread; backed with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Needlework - quilt
United state
Plain weaving
Cotton (textile)
Quilting
Roller printing
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Bookstein


title: "Feather-Edged Star" Quilt

creator: Annie Maria Henkle (American, 1827-1911)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; pieced with cotton, plain weave, printed; quilted, pattern outlined in pencil; backed with cotton, plain weave

country: Virginia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Virginia
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift from the family of Orvis T. Henkle


title: Bedcover

creator: United States, possibly Connecticut

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool in Romanian and stem stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Foliage
Flower
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor


title: Carpet

creator: Alcaraz, Spain

medium: Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Spanish knots;" warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard E. Danielson and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Shawl

medium: textile

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick through the Antiquarian Society


title: Shawl

medium: Wool, double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weave; ends of 2:2 twill weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frank G. Logan


title: Long Shawl

medium: Wool, double interlocking twill tapestry weave; attached side borders, ends and tabs of pieced twill weaves; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Islamic (culture or style)

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Shawl

medium: Wool, pieced double interlocking 2:2 twill tapestry weave; cut main warp fringe; two selvages present

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Long Shawl

medium: Wool, double interlocking 2:2 twill tapestry weave, woven in rectangular sections; attached "Harlequin" tabs of pieced 2:2 twill weaves; embroidered in overcast, stem, and surface satin stitches; laid work and couching; main warp fringe


title: Shawl

creator: Scotland, Paisley

country: Scotland

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Scotland
Weaving
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frank R. Judd in Memory of her mother Mrs. Margaret Revell


title: Long Shawl

creator: Probably France

medium: Silk and wool, center of weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill weave; patterned areas of warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill interlacings; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift from Stanley G. Boberg


title: Shawl

creator: England

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Weaving
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Julius Barnard


title: "Poinsetta" or "Flower of Christmas" Quilt

country: United States

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Flowers
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot) and extended supplementary patterning weft fringe; bottom edged with wool, plain weave with extended ground weft fringe

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Line
Diamond shape
Geometric
Square
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Weaving
Overshot
Textile
Wool (textile)
Fringed
Plain weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. William G. Swartchild, Jr.


title: "Harvest Rose" or "Rose of Sharon" Quilt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Roses
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover


title: Cornelius Vanderbilt Fishing

creator: Designed by J.E. Hodgson (English, 1836-1895) after John O'Connor (English, born Ireland, 1830-1889)

medium: Tapestry

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
England
Modernism
Weaving
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Loring


title: Coverlet

creator: Harry Tyler (American, 1801-1858)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined

country: New York

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arthur L. Chapman


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Indiana, Union County

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed

country: Indiana

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Altar Carpet

creator: Arraiolas, Portugal

date: 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool in long-armed cross stitches

country: Portugal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Needlework - carpet
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: "Cockscomb, Rose Tree, and Pineapple" Quilt

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave, printed; backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Roses
Trees
Needlework - quilt
Needlework (visual works)
Bedcover


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving - coverlet
Weaving
Overshot
Wool (textile)


title: "Rose Wreath" Quilt

medium: Cotton, plain weave, pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; two loom widths joined; fringed

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric
Square
Geometric motif
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Double cloth
Fringed
Wool (textile)
Textile


title: Coverlet

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric
Pine tree
Diamond shape
Square
Geometric motif
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Double cloth
Wool (textile)
Textile
Fringed


title: Signature Quilt

creator: Bartlett, Illinois, United States

medium: Embroidered, cotton plain weave quilt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Illinoi
Quilting
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Luigi Petracchi in memory of Reverend and Mrs. Robert F. Merritt


title: Coverlet

creator: William Craig, Jr. (American, c. 1824-1880)


title: Coverlet

creator: John Rogers (American, born Irish, active c. 1853)


title: Cover

creator: France

date: Empire period, 1808/14

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 3:1 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; edged with silk covered linen cord

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Flower
Empire
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Weaving
European

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: The Marriage at Cana

creator: Northern Germany

medium: Wool, tapestry weave

country: Northern Germany

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
Northern germany
Wool (textile)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Gustavus F. Swift


title: Carpet

creator: Probably Murcia, Spain

medium: Wool, "Spanish knots" on plain weave ground

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Medieval
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving - carpet


title: Carpet

creator: Northern France or the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg)

medium: Linen and wool, plain weave with three-color supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; four panels joined

country: Northern France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Northern france
Weaving - carpet


title: Carpet

creator: Portugal

date: 18th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool and hemp chenille yarn couched with hemp; cut to form pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Needlework - carpet

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Rug

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Needlework - rug
Weaving - rug
Rug

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert R. McCormick


title: Carpet

creator: Alpujarras, Spain

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts forming uncut pile; selvage edge of plain weave terminating in weft fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Weaving - carpet
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Carpet

creator: Spain, possibly Alpujarra

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts forming uncut pile; three panels joined


title: Kesa

creator: Japan

date: late Edo period (1789–1868), late 18th/early 19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Costume
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist

credit_line: Gift of J. S. Gillen


title: Kesa

date: late Edo period (1789–1868), early 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Costume
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert D. Graff


title: Kesa

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Costume
Late edo


title: Kesa

date: Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Liturgical - buddhist
Costume
Weaving


title: Kesa

date: Meiji period (1868–1912), late 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Meiji
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Hitchcock to the Antiquarian Society


title: Kesa


title: Kesa

date: Late 19th century, Meiji period (1868–1912)

medium: Silk; plain weave, embroidered and appliqued with silk and gilt-paper-strip-wrapped silk; silk cord and tassels

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Meiji
Paper (fiber product)
Costume
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Silk
Asian art
Liturgical - buddhist
Costume
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Kesa

credit_line: Bequest of Henry C. Schwab


title: Kesa


title: Kesa

date: Early 19th century, Late Edo period (1789–1868)

medium: Silk and gilt-paper strip; satin weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; silk cords

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Paper (fiber product)
Liturgical - buddhist
Costume
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

medium: weaving

subjects:
Weaving
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Silk
Liturgical - buddhist
Costume
Asian art
Textile


title: Kesa

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Silk
Costume
Asian art
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist


title: Kesa

date: 18th century, Edo period (1615–1868)

medium: Silk and gilt-paper strip; twill and satin weaves with supplementary patterning wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Costume
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

subjects:
Weaving
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk
Asian art
Costume
Textile


title: Kesa

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Costume
Japanism
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving


title: Kesa

date: Edo period (1615–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), late 18th/early 19th century

medium:
Priest robe (kesa)? larger than usual and made in strips set together by conching in gold thread in scrolls. Of kinran fancy compound satin of silk and gilded paper strips cut very finely. Design in blue, red, green, brown, yellow and white on a dark blue ground, r epresents five-clawed dragons, flaming yewels and floating clouds. It is bordered with blue brocaded silk with leaf and flower design; lined with heavy cotton.

Priest robe (kesa)? Larger than usual and made in strips set together by conching in gold thread in scrolls. Of kinran fancy compound satin of silk and gilded paper strips cut very finely. Design in blue, red, green, brown, yellow and white on a dark blue ground, r epresents five-clawed dragons, flaming jewels and floating clouds. It is bordered with blue brocaded silk with leaf and flower design and lined with heavy cotton.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Flowers
Edo (japanese period)
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Meiji
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa


title: Kesa

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 5:1 ‘z’ twill weave with 1:2 ‘z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; silk-wrapped cotton plied cords; couched

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Late edo
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays


title: Kesa

medium: Heri, yô, shiten: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘Z’ twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘Z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; jô: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts and complementary self-patterning ground wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:9 satin interlacings; lining: silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Late edo
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

date: Early or mid–19th century, Late Edo period (1789–1868)

medium: Silk, satin damask and plain weaves


title: Kesa

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warp and patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Late edo
Paper (fiber product)
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts bound by main warps in a weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacing; cords: silk, 2:2 oblique twill interlacing; lined with silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Meiji
Late edo
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles C. Haffner Jr.


title: Kesa

medium: Wool, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper strip wrapped cotton in satin stitches; laidwork and couching; lining: silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Late edo
Paper (fiber product)
Meiji
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Wool (textile)


title: Kesa

date: Late 18th or early 19th century, Late Edo period (1789–1868)

medium: Silk; satin damask and twill weaves with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; stenciled silver foil

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Weaving - printed
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

date: 19th century, Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912)

medium: Silk; plain weave self-patterned by rows of gauze crossings, embroidered with silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

medium: Heri, shiten, niten: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; jô, yô: silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts and with supplementary patterning warps; straps: silk, warp-float face 2:1 'S' twill weave; cords: silk: 2:2 twill oblique interlacing; lining: silk, plain weave; interlining: hemp, felted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Meiji
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

medium: Silk; plain weave, embroidered with silk and gilt-paper-strip-wrapped silk; silk cords

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Paper (fiber product)
Late edo
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

date: First half of the 19th century, Late Edo period (1789–1868)

medium: Silk and gilt-paper strip; twill weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; silk tassels

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)


title: Kesa

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Costume
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving


title: Kesa


title: Kesa (Formerly Nō Costume)

medium: Silk; twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Costume
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Wall Hanging

creator: Uzbekistan, Bukhara

medium:
Silk and cotton; warp-dyed, warp-faced plain
weave (ikat)

country: Uzbekistan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Uzbekistan
Ikat dyed
Silk (textile)
Plain weaving
Cotton (textile)
Dye
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Guido Goldman


title: Panel

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller and block printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Wall Hanging Composed of Five Panels

creator: Uzbekistan, Samarkand or Bukhara

medium: Silk, warp-faced plain weave; warp-dyed (ikat)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Uzbekistan
Ikat dyed
Silk (textile)
Plain weaving
Dye
Weaving


title: Wall Hanging Composed of Five Panels

creator: Uzbekistan, possibly Samarkand

medium: Silk, cotton, warp-faced plain weave; warp-dyed (ikat)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Uzbekistan
Silk (textile)
Ikat dyed
Dye
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving


title: The Stafford Altar Frontal

date: 1620/40 (appliquéd areas: late 17th century)

medium: Silk, broken warp chevron twill weave cut solid velvet; underlaid with cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with same velvet and with silk, satin weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal strip and purl, gilt-metal-wire-wrapped linen, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laidwork and couching; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, bobbin straight lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Silk (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Cotton (textile)
Weaving - velvet


title: Shawl

medium: Silk; painted

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Costume
Weaving
Weaving - printed
Dress (garment)
Silk (fiber)
Clothing


title: Long Shawl

creator: Scotland or England

medium: Wool and cotton, center of weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill weave; patterned areas of weft-float faced 3:1 twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill interlacings over warp-float faced twill weave; main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of M. F. Hunson


title: Long Shawl

creator: Probably Norwich, England

medium: Silk, wool and cotton, warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings and 1:3 and 2:2 'Z' twill interlacings; attached side borders: warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill interlacings; attached ends and fringe of wool, weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill weave; main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Daniel Catton Rich