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Unused wallpaper fragment with floral trail pattern from Middleton, Massachusetts. Two naturalistic branches with thorns and small pink and white flowers, possibly multi-flora roses, grow parallel to each other. Pindots surround the white flowers. Block-printed in black, brown, two greens, pink, red, yellow, white and blue on light green ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Alma's cousin" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
28 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.426
Probably France
Block Printed
unused
Lt. Green
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Multi-Flora Roses
thorns
vine
pindots
flowers
Floral Trail
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