Unused piece of reproduction wallpaper border manufactured by Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. Pattern name and number are unknown. Border has highly abstracted pattern of rosettes atop a scalloped swag, horizontal stripe, dots and another horizontal stripe. Roller-printed in blue and yellow on a light blue ground. Border coordinates with sidewall reproduction paper #120388.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
geometric patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. (Manufacturer)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
5 1/8 x 16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.782
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.781
Machine Printed
Unused
Lt. Blue
Repro
Machine Made
Border
Paper
rosettes
swags
stripes
dots
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