Wallpaper fragments from Marion, Massachusetts. Large scale floral pattern block-printed in blue with purple stenciling on pink and blue Irisé ground. Partial sheets of handmade paper.
wallpapers
wove paper
block printing (relief printing process)
stenciling
Wallpaper
"From the Historical Society House / Marion, Mass" (Handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
19 x 10 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.417A-C
Probably United States
Block Printed
Stenciled
wall fragment
Original
Handmade
Wove
Paper
flowers
leaves
vines
berries
tendrils
Floral
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