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Fragment of floral wallpaper border. Stylized flowers, including bleeding hearts, pansies, and daylilies, grow from behind fence-like band running along bottom edge of border. A black band with brown dot and dash pattern runs along the upper edge. Roller-printed in metallic gold, brown, two blues, yellow, pink, white and olive on brown ground. Paper is embossed with woven texture.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
4 5/8 x 20 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.929
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Border
Embossed
Paper
Pansies
Bleeding Hearts
Daylilies
Floral
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