title: Valance

creator: China

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with secondary binding warps; appliquéd with warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave and warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave over paper; silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts; silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; appliquéd with warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; silk, warp-float faced satin weave with 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave; appliquéd with warp-float faced 2:2 'Z' twill weave; silk, weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill weave; silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with secondary binding warps; lined with silk, plain weave

country: China

subjects:
Weaving
China
Geometric motif
Bats
Foliage
Qing
Gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip
Paper (fiber product)
Silk (fiber)
Textile
Appliqué (technique)
Plain weaving
Satin weaving
Twill weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Tom Pool Scott


title: Curtain

creator: England

date: 18th/19th century

medium: textile

country: England

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

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 of Robert Allerton


title: Panel

date: 19th century

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


title: Carpet

creator: Caucasus, Shirvan

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

country: Caucasus

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Caucasus
Shirvan
Wool (textile)
Caucasian
Central asian
Asian
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Walbank


title: Carpet Strip

creator: United States

medium: Wool, tied and free plain weave double cloth; woven on a loom with Jacquard attachment

country: United States

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Don F. and Jean Stuck Endowment


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
Needlework - rug

credit_line: Bequest of William McCormick Blair


title: Cope with Orphrey Band, Hood and Remnants of a Morse

creator: Italy

medium: Silk, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave and embroidered with silk floss, gold gilt strips, and paillettes in satin stitch; laid work, couching, and padded couching

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Flower
Silk (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Liturgical
Needlework (visual works)
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Linen (material)
Embroidering

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lucien


title: Landscape

creator: Stefano della Bella

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

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: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Cabinet

creator: Hugues Sambin

medium: Carved, painted, and gilded walnut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Hinged Armlet

date: 1st century

medium: Gold with the remains of a core of lac (resin) or mastic

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandahara, Sirkap)

subjects: Pakistan (ancient region of gandahara, sirkap)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987


title: Vase in the shape of a double gourd

medium: Pottery ("soft" Jun ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, 1926


title: Beckley, 1st Base, St. Louis Whites, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Near St. Peter's Church

creator: Richard Cooper II

medium: Counterproof of an iron gall ink drawing, with graphite

credit_line: Gift of Abbott and Holder Ltd., 2023


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


title: Tazza

date: stem and foot late 16th–early 17th century, tray 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Onion Seller, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 28

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: The Head of a Grotesque Man in Profile Facing Right

creator: Leonardo da Vinci

date: after 1500

medium: Pen and brown ink, on off-white paper (now darkened)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Suit

medium: wool, synthetic

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Sarah B. Russell, 1956


title: Bue Balabala

date: late 19th century

medium: bamboo

country: Melanesian (Aoba Island, Vanuatuan)

subjects:
Aerophone-blow hole-panpipe
Melanesian (aoba island, vanuatuan)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Coin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Baptiste-Henri Grégoire, called L'Abbé Grégoire (1750–1831)

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

date: cast between 1844 and 1856

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2005


title: Stamped Brick of Userhat

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Carnelian ring stone

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Sard

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Distrest Poet

creator: William Hogarth

date: December 15, 1740

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Carl Joseph Ulmann, 1926


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: Youth with Right Arm Raised in a Shoulder-Length Portrayal (preparatory study for St. Sebastian)

creator: Timoteo Viti

medium: Soft black chalk, or charcoal, on paper now very darkened (to beige color)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: The Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion Group

medium: Marble, gilding

country: Franco-Netherlandish

subjects: Sculpture-stone Franco-netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Archer M. Huntington, in memory of his father, Collis Potter Huntington, 1926


title: Savannah, Georgia, No. 2

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2012


title: Design for a fireplace

creator: Robert Adam

date: mid-18th–late 18th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Ichikawa Omezō I in the Role of Yakko Ippei from the Play "Koinyōbō somewake tazuna"

creator: Tōshūsai Sharaku

medium: Woodblock print; ink, color, white mica on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Design for Landau, No. 3886

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum arabic and metallic ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Window

date: 18th century

medium: Gypsum, stained glass

credit_line: Gift of William R. Ware, 1893


title: Miss Sylvia, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Dress

creator: Mrs. C. Petterson

medium: silk, metallic thread, beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Alan Graham, 1952


title: Etching of Firearm Ornament

creator: Jean Henequin

medium: Ink, paper

country: French, Metz

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French, metz

credit_line: Purchase, Gift in Memory of Herbert G. Houze, 2025


title: Mlle. Millet, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Scabbard chape

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Purchase, Sir Joseph Hotung Gift, 2008


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Gloves

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. John J. Gibson, 1967


title: Alexander the Great meeting Diogenes

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950


title: Bulbous Vase with Makara Spout

date: 10th–11th century(?)

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987


title: Coin

date: dated 164 AH/780 CE

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Jania rubens

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005


title: New Modelbüch (Page 7r)

creator: Andreas Bretschneider

medium: Etching (counterproof)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Wineglass

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: The Visitation

creator: Master ES

date: 15th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1922


title: Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, London

creator: Auguste Charles Pugin

medium: Watercolor,r pen and black ink, touches of pen and yellow ink

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1956


title: Pitcher

creator: Charles J. Boulter

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Faith, from "The Virtues" (Les Vertus)

creator: Abraham Bosse

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Pair of Miquelet Pistols

date: dated 1687

medium: Steel, wood, brass

country: Spanish, Catalonia

subjects:
Spanish, catalonia
Firearms-pistol

credit_line: Gift of Charles M. Schott Jr., 1917


title: Cup

country: Italic

subjects: Vase Italic

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Carpet

creator: England

medium: Silk and wool, plain weave; embroidered

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
England
Needlework - carpet
Silk (fiber)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Porter


title: "Ocean Wave" Quilt Bedcover

creator: Made by Frances Brooks Wyld (American, died 1958)

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

country: Illinois

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Illinoi
Chicago
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Printing
Twill weaving
Quilting
Piecing (needleworking)
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover
Chicago artist
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Lee Jenner in honor of her mother, Nadine Newbill Jenner


title: Cope

creator: France

medium: White ground, floral design in colors; silver galloon and fringe

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Flowers
Costume
Weaving
Liturgical

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert D. Graff


title: Heirloom Textile

creator: India, Gujarat

date: 17th/18th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave, block printed and resist-dyed

country: India

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

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


title: Tapis Sarong (Skirt)

creator: Indonesia

medium: Cotton, ikat dyed

country: Indonesia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Indonesia
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles H. Worcester


title: Spread or Cover

creator: India

date: 19th century

medium: White with brocaded motifs in blue silk and gold threads

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

credit_line: Gift of Col. and Mrs. John O. Gottlieb


title: Square Shawl

creator: France, England, or Austria

medium: Silk, wool, and cotton, warp threads dyed in multiple colors prior to weaving; center of 2:2 'S' twill weave; patterned areas of warp-float faced 3:1 'S' twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings; main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Herbert L. Stern


title: Scarf or Shawl

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered in eyelet stitch; edged with plain simple satin

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

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Table Carpet

creator: Southern Germany, probably Württemberg

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool, silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in cross, half cross, plaited and tent stitches

country: Germany

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

credit_line: Emily Crane Chadbourne Fund


title: Carpet Fragment

creator: Egypt

date: Mamluk period (1250–1517), late 15th/early 16th century

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

country: Egypt

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

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


title: Prayer Rug

creator: Dagestan or Shirvan, Turkestan

date: About 1900

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

country: Turkestan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkestan
Kazak
Wool (textile)
Weaving - carpet
Caucasian
Central asian
Asian
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Walbank


title: Valance

creator: China

date: 18th century, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

medium: Silk, figured weave; painted

country: China

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

credit_line: Gift of James Tigerman


title: Gothic Arches (Furnishing Fabric)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller and possibly block printed; glazed

country: England

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

credit_line: Elizabeth M. Schultz Endowment


title: Altar Frontal depicting The Resurrection with Four Saints

creator: German, Rhineland

date: late-15th century

medium: Wool twill foundation embroidered with polychrome wool thread

subjects:
Altar object
Germany
Saint
Angel
Christian subject
Christianity
Dragon
Guardian
Religion
Religious figure
Religious scene
Wool (textile)
Embroidering
Late medieval
Embroidery
Liturgical
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Gladys Roberts Thomas in honor of Lynn Springer Roberts


title: Rug

creator: United States

date: late 18th/early 19th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave with wool yarn forming "hooked" pile

country: United States

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Potter Palmer II


title: Carpet Strip

medium: Wool, tied and free plain weave double cloth; woven on a loom with a Jacquard attachment

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Don F. and Jean Stuck Endowment


title: Rug

medium: Jute, plain weave with wool yarn, knitted and woven strips forming "hooked" pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - rug


title: Carpet (Ushak double-ended prayer rug)

creator: Probably Romania

date: 17th century

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

country: Romania

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Romania
Wool (textile)
Textile

credit_line: Bequest of Russell Tyson


title: Carpet

creator: Caucasus, Shirvan

country: Caucasus

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Caucasus
Wool (textile)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph Regenstein


title: Lion with Palms (Rug)

creator: After a pattern designed by Ebenezer Ross (American, active c. 1890–1900)

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

country: Ohio

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ohio
Palms
America
Needlework - rug

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan


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

credit_line: Bequest of William McCormick Blair


title: Altar Frontal

creator: Spain

medium: Red velvet; bands of blue velvet with design; appliquéd in yellow, red and white satin; outlined with couched gold cord

country: Spain

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

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


title: Cope with Orphrey and Hood

creator: Italy

date: 16th century

medium: Red velvet with allover design in couched gold thread

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Liturgical
Weaving - velvet

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Tripp


title: Cope

creator: Italy or Sicily

medium: Silk, satin weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal-strips in crossed back, running, satin, and split stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; beaded with coral beads; edged with woven tapes

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Cope

medium: Silk, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strips, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in cross, outline, satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching and French knots; metal paillettes; gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk woven fringe on hood

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Embroidering
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Laid work
Linen (material)

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: Ceremonial Skirt

creator: Kuba, Bushong

medium: Raffia, plain weave and cotton, plain weave; pieced; appliquéd with raffia, plain weave in pearl stitches

country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

subjects: Kuba (democratic republic of congo style

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Edward E. Ayer Endowment, a memorial to Charles L. Hutchinson by his great friend and admirer; Samuel P. Avery and Maurice D. Galleher endowments


title: Altar Frontal

creator: Germany, probably Middle Rhine region

medium: Linen, wool, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave; embroidered with silk in back and split stitches

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment; partial gift of S. Franses Ltd. in honor of Christa C. Mayer Thurman's contributions to the field of tapestry; purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society


title: Altar Frontal

creator: Italy or Portugal

date: Late 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and linen in leaf, individual satin, satin, split and stem stitches; French knots, laid work, couching and linen padded couching

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Embroidering
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Laid work
Knotting
Couching (embroidering)
Silk (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Ritual object

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Barbara Notz Hines Memorial Fund


title: Cover

creator: Russia

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered in Roumaninan stitch

country: Russia

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

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Tablecloth or Bedcover

medium: Cotton and linen, plain weaves; pieced; embroidered with cotton and linen in buttonhole, stem, and tied herringbone stitches

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

credit_line: Thorne Rooms Exhibition Fund


title: "Jacobs Ladder" Quilt

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young


title: Shawl

creator: Eastern India

medium: Wool, woven of multicolored threads; embroidered border

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

credit_line: Gift of Edith Maria Herren


title: Shawl

creator: Scotland, Paisley

medium: Wool, twill weave

country: Paisley

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Paisley
Fashion
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. H. Hall and Bertha J. Lewis


title: "Honeycomb Centre" Quilt

creator: Union City, Michigan, United States

medium: Cotton and silk, plain weaves, some roller printed; pieced; appliquéd with cotton and wool, plain weave wrapped cardboard; edged and backed with cotton, plain weave; roller printed; quilted with cotton thread

country: Michigan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Michigan
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework - quilt
Appliqué (technique)
Piecing (needleworking)
Quilting
Roller printing
Silk (textile)
Bedcover

credit_line: Robert Allerton and The Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowments


title: Bedcover

creator: Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed; quilted

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Chinoiserie
Copperplate printing
Needlework - quilt
Weaving - printed
Quilting

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John L. Bloom


title: Coverlet

creator: Sarah Scott (American, active c. 1880)

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

country: Illinois

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Illinoi
Coverlet
Overshot
Weaving - coverlet
Weaving
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Winfield Scott and her daughter, Barbara Elizabeth Hollerorth


title: Floral Medallion Quilt

medium: Cotton, pieced plain weaves; one roller printed and glazed; appliquéd with plain weave; printed; glazed; quilted

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

credit_line: Gift of Jennie Hodge Schmidt


title: Bedcover

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Carolyn Hammond


title: North Carolina Lily Quilt

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Herbert L. Stern


title: Kesa

creator: Japan

medium: Silk, satin damask weave (rinzu); resist dyed (shibori); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip in satin and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; lined with silk, plain weave

country: Japan

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

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


title: Kesa

medium: Silk, plain weave with rows of 1:1 plain gauze crossings (yoko ro), self-patterned by areas of combined twill weave; pieced; embroidered with silk, gold-leaf-on-lacquered paper strip wrapped cotton, laidwork and couching

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


title: Kesa

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, Plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned areas of 1:1 plain gauze crossings; lined with silk, plain weave

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


title: Interling (From a Kesa)

medium: Hemp, plain weave; inscribed with Indian ink (sumi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Late edo
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist


title: Kesa

medium: Hiri, yô, jô: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘Z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten and niten: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts

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


title: Kesa

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

medium: Silk

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.


title: Kesa

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 'Z’; twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts; embroidered with silk in satin stitches; laidwork and couching; lined with silk, plain weave

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


title: Kesa

medium: Silk, gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 ‘Z‘ twill interlacings; lining: silk, plain weave

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


title: Panel

creator: Designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (English, 1812–1852)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block or roller printed; glazed; edged with wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Plain weaving
Cotton (textile)
Gothic revival
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Roller printing
Block printing

credit_line: Royalties from The Warner Fund


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: Portugal

medium: textile

country: Portugal

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

credit_line: Purchased through the Textile Study Room Sundry Account


title: Carpet

creator: Spain, Alpujarra

date: Late 18th/19th century

medium: Linen, plain weave with supplementary weft loop uncut pile; edged with wool, warp-faced plain weave with extended weft cut fringe

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Spain
Textile

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


title: Rug

creator: Republic of Türkiye

medium: Tapestry-woven kilims

country: Turkey

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Needlework - rug
Rug
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Ada K. Rew


title: Rug

creator: Caucasus

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Caucasus
Weaving - rug
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. V. C. Abbott


title: Kilim with Six Double-Niches

creator: Central Anatolia, Republic of Türkiye

date: early 19th century

medium: Wool, slit tapestry weave

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
Turkey
Geometric motif
Medallion
Wool (textile)
Slit tapestry weaving
Weaving
Weaving - rug
Rug
Textile

credit_line: Gift of the James D. Tigerman Estate


title: Prayer Carpet

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

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

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


title: Carpet

creator: Morocco, Rabat

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

country: Morocco

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Morocco
Wool (textile)
Textile
African textile

credit_line: Gift of Samuel A. Marx


title: Poncho

creator: Aymara

medium: Wool, stripes of plain weave and three-color complementary warp weave; joined with darning stitches; bottom edged with tape of three-color complementary warp weave; plain weave with extended supplementary patterning weft fringe

country: Bolivia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Bolivia
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Aymará
Weaving
Costume
Latin american

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society


title: "Flying Geese" Quilt

creator: United States

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

country: United States

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

credit_line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young


title: Bedcover

creator: Indo-Portuguese

medium: Linen, plain weave; quilted embroidered with silk floss in darning and back stitches; original silk fringe and tassels

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


title: Sunburst Quilt

creator: Kentucky, United States

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

country: Kentucky

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

credit_line: Gift of Shelly Zegart


title: Square Shawl

creator: Paisley, Scotland

medium: Cotton and wool, satin weave; block printed; attached wool, knotted fringe

country: Scotland

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Scotland
Cotton (textile)
Satin weaving
Weaving - printed
Costume
Wool (textile)
Block printing

credit_line: Gift of Christa C. Mayer Thurman


title: Shawl

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harry Peirce in memory of her mother Mrs. J. F. Crowe


title: Long Shawl

creator: Norwich, England; Lyon, France; or Paisley, Scotland

medium: Silk, gauze weave and broken twill weave; block printed; warp fringe

country: Norwich

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Norwich
Weaving - printed
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of H. E. Harrold


title: Bed Curtain

medium: Two panels joined; linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool yarn in bullion, long-armed cross, satin, and stem stitches; Roumanian and trellis couching

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Embroidering
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Louise Lutz Estate; Louise Lutz Textile Endowment; Mrs. Samuel Laib Sale Proceeds Fund


title: Bedcover

creator: Lorinda Gilbert (English, active 1850s)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller printed; pieced; quilted

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Flower
Lattice
Cotton (fiber)
Roller printing
Needlework - quilt
Quilting
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Porter E. Dix


title: Bedcover

creator: Marcy B. Bert (American, active 1852

medium: Silk, plain weave; backed with pink cotton, plain weave, glazed

country: Pennsylvania

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Pennsylvania
Silk (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework - quilt
Quilting


title: Bedspread (Scenes of English Country Life)

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; quilted; appliquéd with printed cotton swatches and embroidered in cotton and wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Needlework - quilt

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


title: Carpet

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

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Morocco
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Textile
African textile


title: Bedcover

creator: Almeda and Lucinda Robinson (American, active early 19th century)

date: about 1812

medium: Wool, pieced plain weaves, some glazed, some with supplementary brocading wefts; quilted

country: Massachusetts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Massachusett
Wool (textile)
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Rolf J. Ullestead


title: Kesa

creator: Japan

medium: Hiri, yô, jô:: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 3:1 ‘Z’ twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten and niten: silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 4:1 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)
Weaving
Liturgical - buddhist
Silk (fiber)

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


title: Kesa

medium: Silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper strip in satin stitches; lining: silk, plain weave

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


title: Shawl

creator: India

medium: Wool, pieced twill weaves; embroidered in back, buttonhole, fishbone, satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; main warp fringe

country: India

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

credit_line: Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson


title: Kesa

medium:
Hiri, yô, jô: 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;
shiten: silk and wild silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

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


title: Kesa

medium: Heri, yô, and jô: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten and niten: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; cords: silk, twill oblique interlacing; lining: cotton, weft-faced mixed twill weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats

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


title: Square Shawl

creator: Europe

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

country: Europe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Europe
Twill weaving
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Cotton (textile)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Herbert Summers Hall


title: Long Shawl

creator: Designed by Antony Berrus (French, 1815–1883)

medium: Wool and cotton, warp threads dyed in multiple colors prior to weaving; 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 twill interlacings; main warp fringe;woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Costume accessory
Costume
Cotton (textile)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Petersen


title: "Amish Plain" Quilt

creator: Holmes County, Ohio, United States

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

country: Ohio

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

credit_line: Robert Allerton and The Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowments


title: Bedcover

creator: Sarah Stewart (American, 1823–1905)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; quilted diagonally throughout; with additional three-dimensional quilting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Flower
Foliage
Fruit
Garland
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework - quilt
Quilting
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roy J. Piehl


title: Sunburst Quilt

creator: Pieced by Sidney Crane Hamilton (American, active mid-19th century)

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hyde Holden


title: Kesa

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

medium: textile

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

credit_line: Bequest of Henry C. Schwab


title: Kesa

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; lined with silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave

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


title: Shawl

medium: Wool, eighteen strips of plain simple twill; embroidered

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

credit_line: Alice E. Getty Collection


title: Kesa

medium: Hiri, yô, jô: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; shiten and niten: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; stenciled, resist-dyed and painted (tsutugaki-zome); interlining: cotton, plain weave

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


title: Kesa

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

medium: silk

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.


title: Kesa

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp ikat, warp-float faced 5:1 'Z' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacing of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

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

credit_line: Gift of Gaylord Donnelley in memory of Frances Gaylord Smith


title: Chief’s Poncho

creator: Mapuche

medium: Wool, plain weave with stripes of two-color complementary warp weave; embroidered with wool in twined double running stitches; plied warp fringe

country: Chile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Chile
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Folk art
Weaving
Araucanian
Costume
Latin american

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kelly; and the Textile Society


title: Carpet

creator: Anatolia, Republic of Türkiye

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Chapman


title: Cigar Ribbon Quilt

creator: United States

medium: Silk, plain weave; screen printed, stenciled, and/or stamped ribbons; pieced and embroidered with silk in feather stitches; underlaid with cotton, warp-float faced 2:1 twill weave and batting; backed with silk, plain weave; machine-stitch quilted with silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Needlework - quilt
Stamping (forming)
Stenciling
Screen printing
Bedcover

credit_line: The Textile Society; Dr. Lawrence S. Thurman Memorial Fund; Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment


title: Tablecloth

creator: Produced by Johan Backhausen & Söhne

date: before 1905

medium: Cotton, three-color complementary warp and two-color complementary weft plain weave; edged with cotton and rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and self-patterning main warp floats; extended weft fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

country: Vienna

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Vienna
Weaving

credit_line: Robert Allerton Endowment


title: Blanket or Rug

creator: Navajo (Diné)

medium: Wool, dovetailed tapestry weave; twined edges and ends

country: Arizona

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

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Fell


title: Sash or Sarong

creator: Indonesia

medium: Plain cloth with borders of compound twill and cloth; yellow silk with woven silver and red silk borders

country: Indonesia

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

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


title: Bedcover

creator: Greece, Ionian Islands

medium: Linen, plain weave; pulled thread work embroidered with silk in darning and two-sided Italian cross stitches; joined with silk, needle-made inserts of knotted buttonhole stitches; edged with plied and knotted warp fringe; four loom widths joined

country: Greece

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

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry


title: Blanket

medium: Cotton and wool, single interlocking tapestry weave; twined selvages and heading, overcast finish terminating in tassels

country: Navajo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Navajo
Weaving
Native american
America
Folk art
Indigenous
North american
Native north american
Eye-dazzler

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Bross Lloyd


title: Altar Frontal

creator: France

medium: Linen, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and wool in satin and split stitches; laid work, couching, padded couching, and French knots; painted glass beads; backed with linen, plain weave

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Religious scene
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Embroidering
Ritual object

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Cover

medium: Plain simple dark crimson satin edged by dark blue plain simple satin; embroidered in buttonhole, stem, and chain stitches in yellow, dark blue, and white

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: Shawl

medium: Wool; embroidered

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edith Moore


title: Blanket

creator: United States, probably New York

medium: Wool, twill weave; embroidered with wool in chain, satin, and stem stitches; edged with linen and wool fringe

country: New York

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
New york
Flower
Wool (textile)
Twill weaving
Needlework (visual works)


title: Cope with Hood and Orphrey Band

creator: France or Italy

medium: Silk, satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and brocading and self-patterning complementary ground wefts; edged with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk woven tape

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Loui xv
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving
European
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Liturgical

credit_line: Ella M. Schapper Fund


title: Cope

creator: Spain

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in satin, padded satin and split stitches; laid work and couching; lined with linen, plain weave; edged with silk, warp-faced plain weave with cut weft fringe

country: Spain

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson


title: Carpet Fragments

medium: Wool, plain weave; tied and free double cloth; main warp fringe

country: United States

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Barbara Campbell and Mildred Davison


title: Bedcover

creator: Greece, Epirus Province, Ionian Islands

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain, running (pattern darning), satin, and stem stitches; joined with linen, bobbin straight lace tape; four loom widths joined

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


title: Tent Hanging or Coverlet (Djerbi)

creator: Possibly Laghouat, Algeria

date: Mid–/late 19th century

medium: Wool, stripes of weft-faced plain weave and stripes of slit and double interlocking tapestry weave, main warp fringe

country: Algeria

subjects:
Weaving
Algeria
Wool (hair)
Plain weaving
Arts of africa
Textile
Coverlet
Tapestry weaving
African textile

credit_line: Major Acquisitions Fund


title: Panel

creator: Russia

medium: Brocaded plain compound cloth (research card)

country: Russia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Russia
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher


title: Cushion Cover

creator: Manchu

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave over paper and over gold leaf on lacquered paper; two panels joined; edged with four-strand warp twining; lined with silk, 4:1 satin damask weave

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Paper (fiber product)
Needlework (visual works)
Chinese (culture or style)
East asian
Asian
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Russell Tyson


title: Tablecloth

creator: Ukraine or Yugoslavia

medium: Linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work embroidered with cotton yarns in Vandyke stitch; and embroidered with cotton yarns in cross stitch

country: Ukraine

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

credit_line: Gift of Frances Rooz


title: Curtain (For a Bed)

creator: Greece, Dodecanese Islands, Patmos

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running stitches (pattern darning); four loom widths joined

country: Patmos

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


title: Long Shawl

creator: France; Norwich, England, or Paisley, Scotland

medium: Wool and silk, stripes of 1:1 plain gauze weave and stripes of warp-float faced 3:1 'S' twill weave; block printed; attached silk fringe

country: Norwich

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Norwich
Lattice
Block printing
Wool (textile)
Weaving - printed
Silk (fiber)
Wood (plant material)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ralph Waldo Elden


title: Shawl

creator: Produced by Clabburn, Sons and Crisp

medium: silk, twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in twill interlacings; attached side borders; applied knotted fringe; woven on a loom with a Jacquard attachment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Norwich
Twill weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society


title: Shawl

creator: India

medium: Red center with white inscription; four applied borders; outside border is multicolor; embroidered

country: India

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James M. Hopkins


title: Kosode (Robe)

creator: Japan

medium: Silk, plain weave with creped wefts; resist dyed and painted; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in satin stitches; laidwork and couching

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Late edo
Paper (fiber product)
Edo (japanese period)
Japanism
East asian
Asian
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays


title: Altar Frontal

medium: Silk, satin weave; embroidered in silk and gold and silver thread

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Cope

creator: Italy or Spain

medium: Silk, satin weave self-patterned by ground weft floats; embroidered with gilt- and silvered-metal coil and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped hemp in couching and padded couching; glass beads and metal spangles; edged with woven tape; closures of square braiding and in oblique interlacing; embroidered in fishbone stitches; self fringe

country: Italy

subjects:
Italy
Needlework (visual works)
Vestment
Glass
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Skirt Panel

medium: textile

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

credit_line: Gift of Dora A. Seeberger


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Ohio

medium: Cotton and wool, point twill weave (multiple shaft); warp and weft fringe; two loom widths joined

country: Ohio

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ohio
Coverlet
Weaving - coverlet

credit_line: Gift of Clyde C. Rickes


title: Coverlet

creator: United States

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; embroidered with wool in cross stitches

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

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. William W. McKittrick Endowment


title: Altar Frontal

medium: Green velvet with conventional baroque interlacing flower and stem design in appliqué; red velvet borders, top and sides; red and black embroidered design; metal fringe does not appear to be of the period

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

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


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: After etchings by Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620–1683), after an engraving by Josephus Sympson (English, 1710–1750), after a painting by Marmaduke Craduck (English, 1660–1717), after a drawing by Francis Barlow (English, 1626–1702)

medium: Linen and cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed

country: Middlesex

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Middlesex
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Howell B. Erminger, Jr.


title: Prayer Carpet

creator: Republic of Türkiye

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

country: Turkey

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Turkey
Wool (textile)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Clark W. Finnerud


title: Kilim with Bands of "Star" Motifs

creator: Central Anatolia, Republic of Türkiye

date: 1st quarter of the 18th century

medium: Wool, slit-tapestry weave

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Turkey
Wool (textile)
Slit tapestry weaving
Textile

credit_line: Dr. and Mrs. Magnus Urnes Memorial Fund


title: Shawl

creator: Eastern India

medium: Blue cashmere with multicolor; all-over floral pattern

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

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


title: Prayer Carpet

creator: Kula, west Anatolia, Republic of Türkiye

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William F. Drews


title: Pair of Curtains

creator: England

medium: Cotton and linen, twill weave; embroidered with wool

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Flower
Crewelwork (technique)
Cotton (textile)
Embroidering
Needlework (visual works)
Linen (material)
Twill weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John T. Wheeler to the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Cope (without Orphrey or Hood)

creator: Italy, Florence

medium: Silk, damask weave; five panels joined; lined with linen, plain weave (original lining)

country: Florence

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Florence
Lion
Animal
Lattice
Silk (textile)
Damask
Costume
Weaving
Liturgical
Linen (material)
Plain weaving

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Bedcover

creator: France

medium: Cotton, plain weave; quilted

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Sears Roebuck and Company


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and silk yarns in back, cross, herringbone, individual satin, satin, star, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and French knots;

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Flower
Foliage
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Needlework - quilt
Embroidering

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Carpet (For a Buddhist Temple Column)

creator: China

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

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as left-handed Sehna or Persian knot

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Architecture
Textile
China
Qing
Weaving - carpet
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of James Tigerman


title: Cope with Self-Orphrey Band

medium: Silk and silk chenille yarns, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and supplementary brocading wefts; edged with silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps tied by supplementary binding wefts and two-color supplementary pile warps, tied by supplementary binding wefts, forming uncut, voided velvet; lined with linen, plain weave

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

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


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: D. Richards (English, active 1780)

medium: Cotton and linen, plain weave; copperplate printed

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

credit_line: Gift of Cora Ginsburg


title: Bedcover

medium: Silk, velvet, plain twill, damask, also warp-faced plain weave; patterns in warp dyeing, printing, brocading, and extra pattern wefts; wadding and printed warp-faced tabby weave silk lining

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

credit_line: Bequest of Martin A. Ryerson Estate


title: Altered or Unfinished 'Crazy Quilt'

creator: Phyllis Rothschild (American, active c. 1883)

medium: Silks, in a variety of weaves including cut velvet weave, printed; brocaded; pieced and appliquéd; embroidered in a variety of stitches in silk and chenille threads; backed with cotton, plain weave

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Jerome Harris


title: 'Crazy Quilt'

medium: Silk and cotton, pieced plain, twill and satin weaves; some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts; some self-patterned by main ground or complementary ground wefts; some with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet, cut and uncut solid velvet, cut and uncut voided velvet, cut solid stamped velvet and 'velours au sabre'; some printed painted or warp painted (chiné); some (moiré); one appliqué with silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; embroidered with silk in buttonhole, chain, detached chain, feather, double feather, herringbone, stem, straight and sheaf stitch variations; some stitches interlaced; French knots; lined with silk 7:1 satin weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave and ground weft floats

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Kent Clow


title: Cope

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

credit_line: Robert Allerton Endowment


title: Panel

creator: Italy

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered in silk

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr.


title: Bedcover

creator: Designed and executed by Mrs. M. E. Mohortor

medium: Cotton plain weave, pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain weaves; embroidered with cotton and wool wrapped cotton cords of oblique interlacing in running stitches; laid work and couching; edged with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Needlework - quilt
United state
Cotton (textile)
Textile
Women artist

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Margaret Cavigga Trust


title: Carpet known as a "Ryijy" or "Rya"

creator: Finland, Nummi, Hyrsylä

medium: Wool, weft-faced warp-rib plain weave with supplementary wrapping weft forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots"

country: Finland

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Finland
Wool (textile)
Folk art
Weaving - carpet

credit_line: Gift of Patricia Downing Lyons, Edward Lyons, Jr., Kenneth McGaughey Lyons, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lyons


title: Sewan Kazak Rug

creator: Southwest Caucasus

medium: Wool pile on wool foundation

country: Caucasus

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

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Fell


title: "Log Cabin" Quilt

creator: La Salle County, Illinois, United States

date: Late 1880s

medium: Wool and cotton, pieced; plain weaves; plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; printed; plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, solid velvet; plain weave self-patterned by ground weft floats; edged and backed with cotton, satin weave

country: Illinois

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Illinoi
Plain weaving
Wool (textile)
Needlework - quilt
Cotton (textile)
Bedcover

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


title: Carpet

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

medium: Linen and wool, plain weave with groups of three supplementary pile warps forming "three-color velvet;"lined with cotton, twill weave; pieced

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving - carpet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Unfinished Quilt Top

creator: United States

medium: textile

country: United States

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

credit_line: Gift from Louise Bim-Merle


title: "Feather-Edged Star" Quilt

creator: Nancy Margaret Mooney (American, 1850-1925)

country: Pennsylvania

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

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Jeannette Dean Throckmorton


title: Square Shawl

creator: India

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Sarkis H. Nahigian


title: Bedcover Depicting Thirty-four Scenes from the Old and New Testaments

medium: Wool, plain weave; fulled; appliquéd with silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; some stamped; some embroidered with silk yarns in cross, overcast, running, double running, satin, and single satin stitches; couching; edged with silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Religious scene
Animal
Dogs
Old testament
New testament
Plain weaving
Wool (textile)
Folk art
Needlework - quilt
Appliqué (technique)
Bedcover
Cotton (fiber)
Silk (fiber)
Velvet
Cut velvet
American arts and craft movement

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted with cotton in raised areas (trapunto)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Quilting
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Henry Ginsburg in honor of Cora Ginsburg


title: Mennonite 'Crazy Quilt'

creator: Mennonite

medium: Wool, cotton, and silk; plain, twill, and satin weaves; some self-patterned, some with supplementary patterning wefts; some printed; pieced; embroidered with silk feather stitches; edged with twill weaves; backed with cotton, plain weave; printed; quilted with cotton

subjects:
Needlework - quilt
Pennsylvania
Quilting
Wool (textile)
Amish
Textile
Twill weaving
Satin weaving
Printing
Plain weaving
Piecing (needleworking)
Patterning
Embroidering
Cotton (textile)
Silk (textile)

credit_line: Gift of Margaret I. McCurry


title: Coverlet

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Square Shawl

creator: Possibly France or Saxony, Germany

medium: Wool and cotton, center of weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill weave; patterned areas of warp-float faced 5:1 'S' twill weave with supplementary inner warps and supplementary patterning wefts bound in warp-float faced 2:1 'S' twill and plain interlacings; "Harlequin" tabs of warp-float faced two-color complementary warp 5:1 twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in warp-float faced 2:1 'S' twill interlacings; main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

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

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Coverlet

creator: Archibald Davidson (American, born Scottish, active 1832-1848)

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

country: New York


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, New York, Ontario County, Gorham

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

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
New york
Geometric
Geometric motif
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Double cloth
Wool (textile)
Textile


title: Bed Curtain

creator: Manchu

date: Mid–17th/mid–18th century

medium: center panel and inner borders: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings; outer border: silk, warp-float faced 5:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with cotton, plain weave

country: China

subjects:
Weaving
China
Paper (fiber product)
Silk (fiber)
Textile

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Fund


title: Square Shawl

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Hawley L. Smith


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


title: Coverlet

creator: Chesterville, Ohio, United States

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by main warps in plain interlacings with main warp and supplementary patterning weft fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ohio
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving - coverlet
Weaving
Beiderwand
Wool (textile)


title: Coverlet

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

country: Indiana

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Indiana
Flower
Foliage
Bird
Star
Square
Eagle
Geometric
Tree
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Double cloth
Wool (textile)
Textile


title: Quilt with Buildings, Animals, and Coats of Arms

creator: New York, United States, or Great Britain

medium: Appliquéd and embroidered quilt; dyed and printed cotton, wool and silk plain, twill, satin, velvet and patterned weave fabrics; silk embroidery threads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
New york
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework - quilt
Appliqué (technique)
Embroidering
Piecing (needleworking)
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Shelly Zegart


title: Poncho

creator: Chuquibamba

medium: Wool (camelid), interlocking tapestry weave with inserts of complementary weft weave

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Wool (textile)
Tapestry weaving
Chuquibamba
Weaving
Inca
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Latin american
Camelid wool

credit_line: Gift of Roy and Bentley Dillard


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, 3:1 twill and 3:1 broken twill damask weave with main warp and extended ground weft fringe; two loom widths joined

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Coverlet
Snowflake
Line
Circle
Cotton (textile)
Twill weaving
Textile
Weaving
Wool (textile)

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


title: Carpet

creator: Central Iran or Kashan

medium: Cotton, silk, and gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave variation with supplementary brocading wefts and supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile ghrough a technique known as "Persian (Sehna) knots;" edged with silk, cotton, and gil-metal-strip-wrapped silk, woven and card woven fringe

country: Iran

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Iran
Silk (fiber)
Textile

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


title: Bedcover

creator: United States, Pennsylvania

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of James Brown IV


title: Carpet

creator: Morocco, Rabat

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

country: Morocco

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

credit_line: Gift of Samuel A. Marx


title: "Crossroads" Quilt

creator: United States

date: 19th century

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young


title: "Star and Crescent" Quilt

creator: Pennsylvania Dutch

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

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


title: Shirvan Kilim

creator: Azerbaijan, Shirvan area

date: Last quarter 19th century

medium: wool, plain and slit tapestry weaves; weft wrapping; cut warp fringe

subjects:
Weaving - carpet
Caucasus
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Slit tapestry weaving
Fringed
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Barbara Bluhm-Kaul, Neil Bluhm, and Family


title: Lily Quilt

creator: Virginia or North Carolina, United States

date: About 1840

medium: textile

country: Virginia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Virginia
Lilies
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Bedcover (Centennial Fabric with Portraits of George Washington)

medium:
Three widths of cotton, plain weave, printed; pieced border with star motif on blue along two edges; quilted; backed with
cotton, plain weave; roller-printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Portraits
Propaganda
Roller printing
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Philip D. Sang in memory of Philip D. Sang


title: Panel

creator: Produced by J. W. & C. Ward

medium: Wool and silk three-color complementary weft, weft-float faced 1:6 diamond twill weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Wool (textile)
Arts and craft movement
Weaving
Silk (textile)
British

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Auxiliary Board


title: Shawl

creator: India

medium: Wool, twill weave; embroidered

country: India

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour


title: 'Crazy Quilt'

medium: Silk in a variety of weaves including cut velvet weave and a variety of techniques; painted; appliquéd; pieced, worked in squares; embroidered in silk threads in a variety of stitches; backed with cotton, plain weave, roller-printed

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

credit_line: Gift from Mrs. Charles Iseminger


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Ohio

medium: Wool and cotton, plain weave double cloth; main warp and ground weft cut fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined

country: Ohio

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Frank D. Carpenter


title: Comb

date: 6th century

medium: Bone, iron pins

country: Frankish

subjects:
Bone
Frankish
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Santal or Munda Fiddle (Huka Banam)

medium: Wood and hide

country: Eastern India, Probably Jharkhand

subjects:
Musical instrument
Eastern india, probably jharkhand

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2022


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Arcadian Landscape with Three Figures at a Lake

creator: Johann Christian Reinhart

medium: Black chalk and white gouache on brown paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2007


title: Bit Boss

date: first half 17th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: probably Netherlandish

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
Probably netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Head of Lion

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Wood

country: Coptic

subjects: Woodwork-miscellany Coptic

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Salad bowl (Saladier) (one of six) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Rosace (one of five)

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1910


title: Desk (bonheur du jour)

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Harewood, rosewood, ebony, boxwood, satiné, purple-heart, mahogany

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Earring

date: 20th century

medium: Gold

country: India (Kerala, Malabar)

subjects:
Jewelry
India (kerala, malabar)

credit_line: Gift of Helen Stillman, 1994


title: Overvest

medium: Cotton, wool, bone beads

country: Taiwan (Atayal)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Taiwan (atayal)
Costumes-embroidered
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Natkin, 1980


title: The Adoration of the Wise Men

date: 16th century

medium: Intarsia of various woods

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

medium: Cloisonné enamel, gold, copper

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Enamels-cloisonné


title: Tell el-Yahudiya-ware juglet

medium: Black incised ware

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


title: June (Junius)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: The Ship Being Repaired

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Jacket

medium: wool

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lillie A. Martin, 1940


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Winged Pendant

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Tairona

subjects: Stone-ornament Tairona

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Pair of Stirrups

date: possibly 17th–18th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indian, Central or South India

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Indian, central or south india

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Lust and Avarice

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 29, 1788

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: December

creator: Hendrik Meijer

medium: Black chalk, brown, black or gray ink and watercolor

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2005


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese


title: Design for a Fountain with Two Basins One on Top of the Other and Statues of Venus and Putti on the Top.

creator: Francesco Fanelli

medium: Pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of graphite, with vertical line in graphite through the center to create the symmetry of the design

credit_line: Purchase Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1968


title: Mermaid with ink pot

credit_line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931


title: Benefit Ticket for Joe Miller

creator: Samuel Ireland

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Steamship City of Peking, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, from the Ocean and River Steamers series (N83) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Fragment of a Box

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Gold Strap End

medium: Gold and silver

country: Langobardic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Langobardic

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Saint Teresa of Avila's Vision of the Dove

creator: Pierre van Schuppen

medium: Engraving; second state of two


title: Plate 8, from Little Egypt Actresses series (T2), issued by Monopole Tobacco Works to promote Khedive Egyptian Cigarettes

creator: Monopole Tobacco Works

medium: Photolithograph


title: Dish

date: second quarter 17th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamels

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Urn with lid

creator: Coalport

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Barbe

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Henrietta Seligman Lace Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Jesse Seligman, 1910


title: Piece


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Sasaki no Saburo

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Pitcher

creator: Tucker Factory

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Russell Sage Gift, 1970


title: Stone spindle whorl

medium: Stone ?

country: Minoan

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Funerary Cone of Heby

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913


title: Terracotta holmos (stand)

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Rain in the Face, from the Indian Chiefs series (N681) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Terracotta jar with barbotine decoration

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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: Vest

medium: cotton

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward T. Hall Jr., 1941


title: Dinner napkin

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Gerard P. Herrick, 1957


title: Armchair (part of a set)

creator: Georges Jacob

medium: Carved and gilded walnut; 18th-century embroidered silk-satin (not original to the frame)

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab)

medium: Pasteboard; painted and lacquered

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Unfinished Mosaic or Honeycomb Quilt Top

creator: United States

medium: Cotton, pieced plain weaves; some printed; some glazed; backed with paper

country: United States

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Robert G. Robinson


title: Coverlet

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

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Ina Wissmiller


title: Circus

medium: Cotton, plain weave; printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Plain weaving
Weaving - printed
Resist dyeing

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: "Charter Oak" Quilt

medium: textile

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

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Coverlet

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

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

credit_line: Don F. and Jean Stuck Endowment


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Ohio

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; warp and weft fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Coverlet

creator: Charles Meily (American, 1806-1877)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in plain interlacing by main warps with main warp and extended supplementary weft fringe

country: Ohio

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Ohio
Coverlet
Beiderwand
Weaving - coverlet
Weaving


title: Coverlet

creator: James Cunningham (American, born Scottish, c. 1797-after 1865)

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

country: New York


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Pennsylvania

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

country: Pennsylvania


title: Coverlet

creator: Hugh Gilchrist (American, born Scottish, 1806-1857)

country: Indiana

credit_line: Gift of Mildred Davison


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

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Pennsylvania
Star
Coverlet
Geometric motif
Square
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 supplementary wefts in composite point twill weave (star work, multiple shaft); two loom widths joined; edged with extended supplementary weft fringe

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


title: "Cherry Wreaths" Quilt

creator: Kate Reed DeCamp Campbell (American, 1846?-1910)

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. A. Nelson


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


title: 'Crazy Quilt'

medium: Silk and cotton, pieced plain, twill, and satin weaves, some with supplementary patterning warps, supplementary patterning and brocading wefts, self-patterning, and/or cut solid velvet; some painted; embroidered with silk in buttonhole, cross, double feather, feather, herringbone, satin, slanting Cretan, stem, and straight stitches; French knots

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

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Graham


title: "Sawtooth" or "Jagged Square" Quilt

creator: Pennsylvania Dutch

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Donald Young and Shirley Weese Young


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth with main warp and extended ground weft fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Peter and Donna McKinney


title: Square Shawl

creator: India

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

country: India

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Parker Hall


title: Blanket

date: Probably mid–19th century

medium: Wool, twill weave; two loom widths joined

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Wool (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mildred Davidson for the Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection


title: Bedcover (Star and Oak Leave Motif)

creator: United States, Wisconsin, Rochester

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

country: Wisconsin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Wisconsin
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift of Malcolm Dunn


title: Panel

creator: England

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in twill interlacings (lampas)

country: England

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


title: Square Shawl

creator: Norwich, England, Edinburgh, Scotland

medium: Wool, silk, and cotton, 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; attached silk, warp-faced weft ribbed plain weave extended ground weft fringe; two selvages present; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Floral arrangement
Wool (textile)
Twill weaving
Weaving
Cotton (textile)
Silk (textile)

credit_line: Gift of Sarah R. Packard in memory of her mother, Alice G. Radcliffe


title: Basket Pattern Quilt

creator: Mary Katharine Ashbrook Hill (American, 1843–1927)

medium: Cotton, plain weave, pieced with cotton, plain weave, printed in small scale design, quilted, batting, backed with cotton, plain weave, basket pattern; handles appliqued with machine stitching

country: Illinois

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

credit_line: Gift of Mabel Hill Barton and Elizabeth Barton Ryan


title: Bride's Album Quilt

creator: Fanny Lovejoy (1856/57)

medium: Appliquéd and quilted blocks

country: Vermont

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Louis Patterson Haller


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, New York, Steuben County, Tyrone

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined (one width is 1911.93)

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment


title: Coverlet

creator: Samuel Snider (American, born 1820)

medium: Wool and cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; main warp and extended supplementary weft cut fringe

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
Indiana
Medallion
Arrow
Eagle
House
Flower
Tree
Fruit
Foliage
Building
Geometric motif
Snowflake
Star
Circle
Coverlet
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Textile
Cotton (textile)
Fringed
Plain weaving

credit_line: Gift of Marjorie Hattel Storer


title: Coverlet

creator: United States

medium: Cotton and wool, composite point twill weave (multiple shaft); two loom widths joined

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Zigzag
Rectangle
Square
Geometric
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Weaving
Textile
Wool (textile)
Twill weaving

credit_line: Royalties from the Warner Fund


title: "Double Irish Chain" Quilt

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Coverlet

creator: William Hicks (American, 1821–1903)

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 James M. Kittleman


title: Carpet Fragment

medium: Wool, plain weave, tied and free double cloth

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

credit_line: Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz Endowment


title: Coverlet

creator: Wool spun and dyed by Rebexy Gray Hamilton (American, active c. 1850)

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

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hyde Holden


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, New York

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

credit_line: Gift of the Chicago Historical Society


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary wefts in composite point twill weave (multiple shaft, 4 tie-down); two loom widths joined

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

credit_line: Gift of Bernard and Judith Gordon


title: Coverlet

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

credit_line: Gift of Frank D. Carpenter


title: 'Crazy Quilt'

medium: Silk, cotton, and wool, pieced plain, twill, and satin weaves; some with velvet, some with patterning and brocading wefts, and some self-patterned; some printed / painted; some watered (moiré); embroidered with silk, cotton, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped cotton and silk, and copper-metal-strip-wrapped wool in back, individual back, chain, detached chain, eyelet, feather, herringbone, overcast, satin, surface satin, single, stem stitches; laid work and couching; embellished and appliquéd with gilt and silver metal and gelatin paillettes, lacquered paper, glass, ceramic, and metal beads, pearls, silk ribbons, leather, and machine embroidered motifs; edged with silk chenille and cotton, machine-made net; cut work embroidered in overcast and satin stitches; backed wtih silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Needlework - quilt
Silk (fiber)
Bedcover
Embellished

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas Edgar O'Neil


title: Coverlet

creator: United States, Probably Pennsylvania

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

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


title: Coverlet

creator: James Cunningham (American, born Scottish, c. 1797-after 1865)

country: Oneida County

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Ceremonial Cloth

creator: India, Coromandel Coast

date: 17th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave, block printed and resist-dyed

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

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


title: Coverlet

creator: Peter Lorentz (American, born French, 1801-1876)

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; warp and weft fringe

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raoul R. Haas


title: Bedcover

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered in wool and cotton; appliquéd with edges turned in, couching with large slanting stitches, encroaching satin stitch, black shading, fishbone, satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - quilt

credit_line: Gift from Edith Kohlsaat


title: Coverlet

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

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

credit_line: Elizabeth M. Schultz Endowment


title: Coverlet

creator: John Eusebius Schneider (American, born German, active 1823-1903)

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

country: Missouri

credit_line: Textile Purchase Fund


title: Coverlet

creator: Martin Hoke (American, born German, 1815–1893)

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

credit_line: Gift of John J. Beatty


title: Le Parc du Chateau (Bedspread)

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

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed

country: Jouy-en-Josas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Jouy-en-josa
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile


title: Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition Quilt

medium: Pieced quilt; dyed and printed cotton and wool plain and patterned weave fabrics; printed cotton handkerchief

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Commemoration
Propaganda
Pennsylvania
Exhibition
Geometric
Checkerboard
Paisley
Triangle
President
United state of america
Medallion
Building
Cotton (textile)
Piecing (needleworking)
Needlework - quilt
Wool (textile)
Needleworking
Plain weaving
Printing
Quilting
Bedcover

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


title: Rug

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Native american
Needlework - rug
America
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Robert Allerton


title: “Birds and Squirrels” Furnishing Fabric

medium: Cotton; roller printed

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Printed textile
France
Birds
Animal
Neoclassicism
Roller printing
Cotton (textile)
Textile
Printing
Ink
Jouy-en-josa
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Elizabeth M. Schultz Endowment Fund


title: Panel (Possibly a Shawl or bedspread?)

creator: England

medium: Plain weave, block printed

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

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Bedcover

creator: Hannah (née Hastings) Howard (American, 1770-1833)

medium: Cotton, plain weave, quilted

subjects:
Needlework - quilt
United state
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wesselman


title: Album Quilt

creator: Made by the ladies of the United Presbyterian Church in West Alexandria, Pennsylvania, for their pastor, Rev. James Chauncey Murch (d. 1879)

medium: Cotton, plain weave, pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave, printed, embroidered in cotton threads in buttonhole and chain stitches; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Pennsylvania
Needlework - quilt
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift from Frank D. Loomis


title: Bedcover

creator: Carolyn A. Ford (American, active c. 1833)

medium: Cotton, plain weaves; pieced; appliquéd; some printed; embroidered in buttonhole and herringbone stitches; quilted; backed and overlined with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Needlework - quilt
United state
Quilting
Textile
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Milton Horn in memory of Estelle Horn


title: Quilt Top

date: 1850 or later

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with pieced plain weave; and plain weave; roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Pennsylvania
Floral motif
Foliage
Flower
Cotton (textile)
Appliqué (technique)
Needlework - quilt
Plain weaving
Quilting
Roller printing
Piecing (needleworking)
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Mary Elizabeth Johnson


title: Bed Rug

creator: Hannah Johnson (American, 1770–1848)

medium: Wool, plain weave; with cut pile formed by wool yarns embroidered in looped running stitches

country: Connecticut

subjects:
Needlework - quilt
Connecticut
Plant-derived motif
Plant
Flower
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering
Textile
Women artist
Essential

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


title: North Carolina Lily Quilt

creator: United States

medium: textile

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

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Quilt Top

medium: Cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with pieced, plain weave; some roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Pennsylvania
Floral motif
Wreath
Foliage
Flower
Cotton (textile)
Quilting
Needlework - quilt
Plain weaving
Appliqué (technique)
Piecing (needleworking)
Roller printing
Bedcover
Women artist


title: Carpet

creator: India

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving - carpet

credit_line: Richard T. Crane Jr. Memorial Fund


title: Friendship Quilt

creator: Made for Ella Maria Deacon (American, 1811–94)

medium: Appliquéd and pieced quilt; dyed and printed plain weave cotton fabrics; ink inscriptions

country: Mount Holly

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Mount holly
Friendship
Circle
Triangle
Flower
Wreath
Star
Square
Geometric motif
Floral motif
Cotton (textile)
Quilting
Needlework - quilt
Glaze
Ink
Appliqué (technique)
Piecing (needleworking)
Plain weaving
Printing
Stamping (marking)
Writing (processes)
Bedcover
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Betsey Leeds Tait Puth


title: Unfinished "Mariner's Compass" Quilt

creator: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

medium: Cotton, plain weave; some printed; some glazed; pieced

credit_line: Harriet Gillette Van Kennen Memorial Fund