Brocaded Corded Fabric

Textile Arts

Page from Book of Okinawan Textiles

Unknown Artist, 19th-20th century

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)

19th-20th centuryJapanese

Textile Arts

Purple velvet

Unknown Artist

Textile Arts

Textile Fragment: Nereid with Dancers and Charioteers

Unknown Artist, 5th-6th century

Wool

5th-6th centuryEgyptian

Textile Arts

Textile Fragment of the Meiwa era with Design of Plants

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Textile Arts

Prayer Carpet

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Warps: 2 S plied Z spun undyed ivory wool; alternate warps slightly depressed; pronounced lazy lines. Weft: 1 Z spun strand in light red and brown; 2 yarns per shoot, with alternating green and brown yarns, some single yarn shots. Pile: 2 S plied Z spun wool; cotton. Pile colors (wool): light green, light blue, white wool, purply-red, maroon red, brick red, pink, medium blue, dark blue, olive green, pale ecru (possibly faded from?) yellow. White pile is cotton. Knots per vertical decimeter: 49. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 37/38. Woven upside down.

19th centuryTurkish