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Fragment of uncut flocked wallpaper border. Two uncut borders. each border has two bands: a green band with trefoil and diamond figures and a gray band imitating carved acanthus leaf molding. Block-printed in dark gray, white and green flocking on gray ground. Flocking is overprinted in black and mint green.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
acanthus (motif)
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
3 1/2 x 19 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.653
Block Printed
Flocked
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Trefoil
Clover
diamond
pin dots
acanthus leaf
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