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Two uncut rows of flocked wallpaper borders. Pattern imitates draped green fabric trimmed in gold fringe, twisted and held in place by green tassels and gold bosses over a row of gold-colored gimp. Block-printed in three browns, metallic gold and green flocking on white ground. Green flocking is overprinted in light green, black and dark brown.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
flocking
trompe-l'oeil
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
6 1/8 x 22 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.633AB
Block Printed
Flocked
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Imitation Fabric
Tassels
Cord
Gimp
Drapery
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