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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns in back, buttonhole, darning, overcast, padded overcast; Roumanian, running, satin, and stem stitches; a variety of laid work and couching · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, hemp, cotton, horsehair, and silver beads in detached buttonhole, detached trammed buttonhole, and bullion knot stitches; a variety of laidwork and couching, buttonhole and overcast bars; coiling in lazy squaw stitch; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered in overcast stitches; beaded · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and silk in laidwork and couching · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and cotton threads in buttonhole stitches; laidwork and couching · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

Mysterium
Urszula Plewka-Schmidt
Wool, cotton, linen, rayon, nylon, acrylic, silk, and hemp, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric wefts and laced, overcast and wrapped outlining wefts · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

Figure
Jo Ann Callis
Gelatin silver print on linen and painted wooden frame · 1987
Museum of Modern Art

Day by day, good day (Tag um Tag guter Tag) Nr. 256 (Day)
Peter Dreher
Oil on linen · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Map I
Keiko Kobayashi
Linen, single interlocking plain weave with discontinuous warps and wefts (sections of weaving joined by dovetailing around an inserted, scaffolding wefts) · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Hologram Diamond (Furnishing Fabric)
Jack Lenor Larsen Inc.
Linen and silk, plain weave double cloth · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Hologram Square (Furnishing Fabric)
Jack Lenor Larsen Inc.
Linen and silk, plain weave and plain weave double cloth · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Homage to Louis Sullivan
Helena Hernmarck
Linen and wool, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Das andere Land (The Other Land)
Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, wool, silk, horsehair, hemp, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in open buttonhole filling and stem stitches; laid work and couching · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

1909 Plan of Chicago
Helena Hernmarck
Linen and wool, plain weave of discontinuous wefts with supplementary brocading wefts · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Homage to Louis Sullivan (Study)
Helena Hernmarck
Wool, cotton, and linen, plain weave of discontinuous wefts with supplementary brocading wefts · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Conjugation
Terry Winters
Oil on linen · 1986
Museum of Modern Art

Costa del Sol
Eric Fischl
Oil on linen, two panels · 1986
Museum of Modern Art

Solitary Sun
Mimmo Paladino
Oil, metallic paint, and tar on burlap, wood, and linen attached to a gilded and charred plywood panel · 1986
Museum of Modern Art

Amerika VIII
K.O.S. (Kids of Survival)
Watercolor, charcoal, and pencil on bookpages on linen · 1986
Museum of Modern Art

Weft Wandering Astray
Sheila Hicks
Linen and silk, bands of plain weave open work with discontinuous wefts and supplementary brocading weft, warp-float faced twill weave, and plain weave self-patterned with main warp floats; main warp fringe · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago

Children’s Crusade (Kinderkreuzzug)
Martin Honert
Acrylic on polyester and oil on linen · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago

Doublet
Diane Simpson
Oil stain on redwood, with linen canvas · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago

Scalata (Furnishing Fabric)
Jack Lenor Larsen Inc.
Cotton and linen, weft-float faced warp chevron twill weave self-patterned by areas of warp chevron twill weave and plain weave · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago

Tradewind (Furnishing Fabric)
Jack Lenor Larsen Inc.
Cotton and linen, mixed and combined twill weave with supplementary patterning warps in satin and plain interlacing · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago

Pinion Sheer (Furnishing Fabric)
Jack Lenor Larsen Inc.
Linen and cotton, combined twill weave with supplementary patterning warps in 7:1 satin and plain interlacings and bands of supplementary patterning wefts; patterning elements are unbound in non-patterned areas and are cut away after weaving · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago