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Fragment of ribbon and bead wallpaper border. Realistic blue ribbon intertwined with gray string of beads over upper band of gray with white grass sprigs and lower band of blue with blue shadowing. Gray stripes at upper and lower edges. Block-printed in white, five shades of blue and three shades of gray on gray ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
2 3/8 x 16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.675
Block Printed
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
ribbon
beads
Imitation textile
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