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Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Fantasy" pattern (#23093) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has a floral trail pattern of delicately scrolling vines with flower blossoms and fern-like foliage. Roller-printed in two greens and two blues on a cream ground. Pattern is based on a wallpaper found in a 19th century home in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Fantasy
23093
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Warner Company (Manufacturer)
Wilson, Binnie B.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
20 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.847
New Hampshire (Auglaize county, Ohio)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Title Wallpaper Sample Book Accession Number 2001.281.710
Title Textile Remnant Accession Number 1232.1-.3
Machine Printed
Unused
Cream
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
floral
Paper
vines
flowers
Floral Trail
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