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Two matching fragments of flocked wallpaper border. Block-printed stylized flower with symmetrical leaves and scrolls extending on either side. The flower figure repeats over an upper band of green flocking overprinted with light green quatrefoils, a middle band of beads, and a lower band of curved or cord molding. Block printed in white, dark gray, black and green flocking on gray ground. Flocking is overprinted in light green.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
2 1/4 x 24 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.670AB
Block Printed
Flocked
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Stylized Flower
Quatrefoil
beads
architectural molding
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