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Wallpaper fragments from Cotuit, Massachusetts. Pattern difficult to determine. Probably a Renaissance Revival style stripe based on visible floral bouquets and swags with scroll and strapwork cartouches. Roller-printed in white, blue, green, two pinks and red on ungrounded paper. Second layer of two layers of wallpaper. Strips of green gingham fabric attached horizontally to back of some of the fragments. Fabric appears to have been applied after the first layer of wallpaper to prepare the wall for this second layer.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Cotuit / Floss Shaw" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.368.2A-D
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.368.1
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Flowers
bouquets
swags
scrolls
cartouches
Floral
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