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Fragment of flocked wallpaper border. Border imitates carved architectural molding and has three design bands. One band of gold ribbon and bead molding, a band of red flocking, and a gold band of semi-circle and bead molding. Block-printed in metallic gold, yellow, ochre, maroon and red flocking. Flocking overprinted in black.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
metallic pigment
trompe-l'oeil
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
5 1/8 x 16 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.651
Block Printed
Flocked
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Architectural Molding
Bead
Ribbon
NeoClassical
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