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Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Calico Stripe" pattern (#23141) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper pattern imitates a calico fabric with alternating stripes. One stripe has irregular borders and contains highly abstracted flower motifs on either side of a central zigzag line. The other stripe has a highly abstracted sprig motifs on either side of an undulating curved line. Also present in this stripe are small quatrefoil motifs. Roller-printed in blue, yellow, white and brown on a gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
stripes
Wallpaper
Calico Stripe
23141
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Warner Company (Manufacturer)
Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
20 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.845
New Ipswich (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.710
Title Textile Remnant "Calico Stripe" Accession Number 2001281.1237
Machine Printed
Unused
Grey
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
stripes
calico
abstracted flowers
sprigs
quatrefoils
Textile
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