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Length of velvet

Date: late 15th century
Accession Number: 12.49.8

Coptic Textile Fragment with an Image of a Goddess

Date: late 3rd–4th century
Accession Number: 10.130.1076

Air

Attributed to Charles Le Brun (French, Paris 1619–1690 Paris)

Date: ca. 1683
Accession Number: 46.43.4

Interior Hanging

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1971.30

Fragment from a Coptic Hanging

Date: 5th century
Accession Number: 90.5.905

Woven Tapestry Fragment

Date: mid-8th century
Accession Number: 50.83

Part of a petticoat

Date: mid-to third quarter 18th century
Accession Number: 1992.82

Quilt

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1987.63

Fragment

Date: 4th–5th century
Accession Number: 31.2.1

Panel

Date: 4th century
Accession Number: 90.5.873

Emperor's Twelve-Symbol Robe

Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 54.14.2

Welcoming Spring

Unidentified Artist

Date: 15th century
Accession Number: 1981.410

Tunic with Confronting Mythical Serpents

Date: 800-850
Accession Number: 29.146.23

Kosode with Design of Shells and Sea Grasses

Date: early 17th century
Accession Number: 1992.253

Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru

Date: 14th century
Accession Number: 1989.140

Costume Armor in the Classical Style

Helmet includes original paper label of Hallé (French, Paris, active ca. 1780–1800)

Date: ca. 1788–90
Accession Number: 1988.65.1–.2

Panel with Peonies and Butterfly

Date: late 14th–15th century
Accession Number: 1987.277

Textile

Date: 10th–11th century
Accession Number: 31.106.64

Sash (Patka) with a Floral Border

Date: second half 17th century
Accession Number: 1983.494.9

Embroidered Carpet

Zeruah H. Guernsey Caswell (1805–ca. 1895)

Date: 1832–35
Accession Number: 38.157

Fragmentary Loom Width with Ogival Pattern

Date: ca. 1570–80
Accession Number: 49.32.79a–y

Embroidered Sampler

Mary Jones

Date: 1795
Accession Number: 1984.331.22

Hunting and Fishing Scenes

Manufactured by Robert Jones

Date: 1769
Accession Number: 1983.365

Eight-Pointed Star Tunic

Date: 1460–1540
Accession Number: 33.149.100

"Music"

Savonnerie Manufactory (Manufactory, established 1626; Manufacture Royale, established 1663)

Date: ca. 1685–97
Accession Number: 52.118

Mantle

Date: 2nd–1st century BCE
Accession Number: 1986.488.1

Length of velvet

Date: late 17th–early 18th century
Accession Number: 1992.15

Textile with Animals, Birds, and Flowers

Date: late 12th–14th century
Accession Number: 1988.296

Cravat end

Date: mid-18th century
Accession Number: 48.41.1

Dress panel

Hector Guimard (French, Lyons 1867–1942 New York)

Date: ca. 1900
Accession Number: 49.85.11

Chasuble

Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1984.462.1

Tunic

Date: probably 5th century
Accession Number: 26.9.8

Musical Party in a Garden

Date: 1647
Accession Number: 64.101.1314

The Bridal Chamber of Herse, from a set of eight tapestries depicting the Story of Mercury and Herse

Design attributed to Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona (Italian, active 1540–52)

Date: ca. 1550
Accession Number: 41.190.135

Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth; linen mark

Date: ca. 1492–1473 B.C.
Accession Number: 36.3.111

Textile, Design 104

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (American, Richland Center, Wisconsin 1867–1959 Phoenix, Arizona)

Date: 1955–62
Accession Number: 1991.131

Wearing Blanket

Date: 1860–70
Accession Number: 1979.206.1039

Kennet

Designed by William Morris (British, Walthamstow, London 1834–1896 Hammersmith, London)

Date: design registered 1883; printed 1917–23
Accession Number: 23.163.7

Textile sample

La Maison Martine

Date: ca. 1911–23
Accession Number: 23.178.11

Tulips panel

Candace Wheeler (American, Delhi, New York 1827–1923 New York)

Date: 1883–87
Accession Number: 28.34.2

Textile fragment: walking ram with a neckband and fluttering ribbons

Date: ca. 7th century A.D.
Accession Number: 1977.232

Tri-color Arch

Claire Zeisler (American, Cincinnati, Ohio 1903–1991 Chicago)

Date: 1983–84
Accession Number: 1987.371

Mandala of Yamantaka-Vajrabhairava

Date: ca. 1330–32
Accession Number: 1992.54