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Wallpaper border fragment from the Clapp House, Dorchester, Massachusetts. Stylized floral and foliate border with architectural motif along one edge. Block-printed in three blues, yellow, orange, tan and brown on probable tan ground. Brick red colored flock surrounds pattern and is printed with black.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
flock papers
Wallpaper
"Dorchester / Clapp" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Clapp House,
Unknown
France
6 x 24 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.112
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
France
Block Printed
Flocked
unused
Grey
Original
Handmade
Border
Paper
floral
flower
Leaf
foliate
architectural
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