Unused wallpaper fragment with brochade pattern. Roller-printed green and gray stripes covered with a layer of liquid mica. Remaining pattern elements - narrow stripes, sprigs and leaves - roller-printed in two greens, orange, pink, red, two blues, white and gold on top of liquid mica. Paper is embossed with moiré pattern.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
stripes
mica (white pigment)
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
8 1/2 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.179
Machine Printed
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
brochade
flowers
leaves
stripe
mica
Imitation textile
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