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Fragment of floral wallpaper border. Pink and red flowers with green foliage on light olive ground. Flowers grow upward from a band of maroon and black circles with stylized flower centers running along the lower edge of the border. The upper edge is decorated with a row of dots and outer black stripe. Roller-printed in black, maroon, pink, fuschia, tan, brown, and three greens on light olive ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
4 5/8 x 7 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.911
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Fowers
foliage
Circles
Dots
Stripes
Floral
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