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Two cut samples of reproduction wallpaper in the "John Wing Stripe" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection produced by the Warner Company, Chicago. Floral stripe pattern with stripes of small vine with berries, stylized floral vines, and bamboo. Roller-printed in two reds, two greens, white and tan on light tan ground. Based on wallpaper found in a trunk in the John Wing House, Sandwich, Massachusetts. Fragment [A] is affixed to a piece cardboard and it's selvedges have been cut off.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"There is matching fabric for this wallpaper / From the Waterhouse Collection / "John Wing Stripe" / Recreated by Binnie B. Wilson for The Warner Co. / 21417 / Run 2" (printed)
John Wing Stripe
21417
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Associated With John Wing House (Sandwich, MA),
Warner Company (Manufacturer)
Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
18 1/4 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.819AB
Sandwich (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.706
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.833
Machine Printed
Unused
Tan
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
bamboo
stylized flowers
ivy
berries
stripes
Floral Stripe
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