Three uncut rows of flocked acanthus leaf and rosette wallpaper border. Border imitates architectural molding with acanthus leaf and rosette figures in gold on green. Block-printed in ochre, tan, two browns, metallic gold and green flocking on white ground. Flocking is overprinted in two greens and black. End of roll.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
Neoclassical
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
10 1/4 x 17 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.634
Block Printed
Flocked
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Acanthus Leaf
Rosette
Architectural Molding
NeoClassical
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