Fragment of rolled wallpaper border with gold bead pattern. Alternating large and small gold beads against flocked maroon background. Bands of gold and brown stripes run along top and bottom edges of the border. Block printed in two browns and ochre with gold leaf and maroon flocking on white ground. The flocking is overprinted with black. Paper appears to be unused but dried and flaking sizing or glue is present on the back and selvedge.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
flocking
block printing (relief printing process)
gilding
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
36 x 2 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1024
Block Printed
Flocked
Unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Beads
Circles
Stripes
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