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| Anonymous Italian Weavers Orphrey Band with Dead Christ in the Tomb 16th century silk and linen Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Mexican Needleworker Sampler ca. 1820 silk embroidery on cotton Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Spanish Needleworker Shrine to the Virgin 17th century silk embroidery on silk-satin hanging Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Spanish Weavers Fabric Panel with Pomegranates and Blossoms 15th century silk Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Spanish Weavers Fabric Panel 17th century silk-satin damask Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Spanish Weavers Fabric Panel with Birds and Pomegranates 15th century silk Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| F. Schumacher & Co., New York Sample Book for Waverly Wovens 1953 cottons and rayons Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous American Manufacturer Fabric Panel with Constructivist Design ca. 1925-30 screenprinted silk Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous American Manufacturer Fabric Panel with Capitals Design ca. 1950-60 screenprinted cotton Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous American Manufacturer Fabric Panel with Deco Repeat ca. 1920-30 printed silk National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Paul Poiret for Atelier Martine, licensed to Duplan Silk Corp. Lizeron 1914 block-printed silk Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Paul Poiret for Atelier Martine, licensed to Duplan Silk Corp. Bishop 1914 roller-printed silk Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Paul Poiret for Atelier Martine, licensed to Duplan Silk Corp. Pekin 1914 roller-printed silk Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Paul Poiret for F. Schumacher & Co., New York Juin 1930 roller-printed cotton Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Makers in India for the Dutch Market Bed Hanging ca. 1700-1725 painted and dyed cotton chintz Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Persian Weavers Fabric Panel with Botanical Repeat 18th century silk brocade Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Makers Scarf ca. 1920-30 pieced rectangle of printed and solid-colored silks Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
Death is the sad estranger of acquaintance, the eternal divorcer of marriage, the ravisher of the children from their parents, the stealer of parents from the children, the interrer of fame, the sole cause of forgetfulness, by which the living talk of those gone away as of so many shadows or fabulous Paladins. All strength by it is enfeebled, beauty turned in deformity and rottenness, honour in contempt, glory into baseness: it is the unreasonable breaker-off of all the actions of virtue by which we enjoy no more the sweet pleasures on earth, neither contemplate the stately revolutions of the heavens. The sun perpetually setteth, stars never rise unto us. It in one moment depriveth us of what with so great toil and care in many years we have heaped together. By this are successions of lineages cut short, kingdoms left heirless, and greatest states orphaned. It is not overcome by pride, smoothed by flattery, tamed by entreaties, bribed by benefits, softened by lamentations, diverted by time. Wisdom, save this, can alter and help anything. By Death we are exiled from this fair city of the world; it is no more a world unto us nor we anymore people into it. The ruins of fanes, palaces and other magnificent frames yield a sad prospect to the soul: and how should it consider the wrack of such a wonderful masterpiece as is the body, without horror?
– William Drummond of Hawthornden, from A Cypress Grove (London: Hawthornden Press, 1919, reprinting the original edition of 1623)