Artworks

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk and linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in stem, satin, long and short, padded satin and variations on buttonhole stitches; French knots; laid work and couching; glass beads · 1977

Angelo Testa

Cotton, plain weave with supplementary wool yarns forming hooked cut and uncut pile; attached wool tassels embellished with plain oblique interlacing, knotting, plaiting, and wrapped with wool, hemp, silk and linen yarns · 1970

Lenore Tawney

Linen, silk and wood, slit tapestry weave with wrapped, cut fringe; embellished with feathers; silk and linen knotted fringes · 1965

Martha Alber

Silk and linen, plain weave; screen printed and possibly hand painted · 1905

Edgar Degas

pigmented beeswax, clay, metal armature, rope, paintbrushes, human hair, silk and linen ribbon, cotton faille bodice, cotton and silk tutu, linen slippers, on wooden base · 1878

Mathevon et Bouvard

Silk and linen, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with 1:2 'S' or weft-float faced 1:2 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts · 1860

Mathevon et Bouvard

Silk and linen, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts · 1860

LA

Silk and linen, satin weave with brocading wefts; painted · 1773

Philippe

Silk and linen, satin weave with brocading wefts; painted · 1773

Philippe de La Salle

Silk and linen, satin weave with brocading wefts; painted · 1773

Parnell Mackett

Linen, plain weave; bands of cut and drawn thread work in darning, interlocking lace, satin, and needle lace filling stitches; bands of needle lace or a cut and drawn thread grid and bands embroidered with silk and linen in Algerian eye, back, cross, long-armed cross, two-sided Italian cross, double running, running, satin and a variety of buttonhole stitches · 1690

Andrea del Sarto

Linen, plain weave underlaid with silk, plain weave with insert medallion of silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and linen in satin, split and stem stitches; couching and French knots; edged with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with patterning wefts and complementary weft weave tapes; lined with silk, plain weave · 1575