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Two fragments of striped wallpaper from Wareham, Massachusetts. Stripes of overlapping lozenge or leaf-shaped figures alternate with a field of small, stylized sprig figures. Block-printed in blue and white on light blue ground. Handmade paper, partial sheets.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
stripes
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Captain John Kendrick House,
Unknown
75 x 15 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.522AB
Block Printed
wall fragment
Lt. Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
lozenge
sprig
leaves
Stripe
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