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Partial roll of uncut wallpaper borders half the width of a full roll. The partial roll is printed with three borders. Each border has an upper and lower band imitating a bamboo stalk. The center band is a vine of ivy growing along an undulating stalk of bamboo on a background of black flocking. Block-printed in three browns, cream and yellow with gold leaf and black flocking on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
11 1/8 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1003
Block Printed
Flocked
Unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Bamboo
Ivy
Vine
Foliate
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