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Two fragments of wallpaper border . Narrow border with grisaille center band depicting a rod with ribbon wrapping around it on white background stripe. Between each fold of ribbon are three beads. Flanking the center band are stripes of metallic silver, yellow, white bead and reel, and dark gray. The border is roller-printed in two grays, white, metallic silver, and yellow on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
grisaille
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
2 1/2 x 5 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.951AB
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Architectural Molding
Bead and Reel
Stripes
Geometric
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