Cut sample of floral wallpaper. Naturalistic floral sprigs with violet flowers alternate with very small sprigs of blue flowers on moiré background. Block-printed in three grays, yellow, pink, four violets, brown, four greens and two blues on polished white ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Designs we might consider" (Folder label.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
25 x 22 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.623
France
Block Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Sprigs
Flowers
Moiré
Naturalistic
Floral
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