Two fragments of rolled wallpaper border with a pattern of gold quatrefoil figures against black flocking. Gray and orange elongated trefoil or diamond figures extend from either side of the quatrefoils printed on the black flocking. Gold stripes run along the top and bottom of the border. Block-printed in metallic gold, orange, brown and black flocking on light peach ground. The flocking is overprinted in gray and orange.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
Neoclassical
Wallpaper
"5031" (Possible pattern number.)
5031
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
32 1/2 x 2 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1023AB
Block Printed
Flocked
Unused
Peach
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Quatrefoil
Diamond
Trefoil
NeoClassical
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