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Fragment of rolled wallpaper border. Pattern of stylized flowers draped through and around white scrolls with strapwork on a background of red flocking. Bands of bead and reel pattern in gray run along upper and lower edges of the border. Block-printed in white, four grays, three greens, three blues, two lavenders, purple, two pinks, red, two oranges, yellow and red flocking on light blue ground. Flocking is overprinted in black.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
32 x 4 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1017
Possibly France
Block Printed
Flocked
Unused
Lt. Blue
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Stylized flowers
Strapwork
Scrolls
Floral
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