Two fragments of flocked wallpaper border from the Waters Memorial Hall in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Fragment (B) affixed to paperboard. Gray quatrefoil flowers alternate with a small gray flower and acorns figure on a background of brown flocked overprinted with green stylized fern figures. Bead and reel borders on upper and lower edges. Block-printed in white and three grays on blue ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To
Unknown
4 x 27 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.410.2AB
Possibly France
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.410.1A-C
Block Printed
Flocked
wall fragment
Blue
Original
Handmade
Border
Paper
quatrefoil
flower
acorn
bead and reel
molding
NeoClassical
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