Fabric panel with long fragment of wallpaper and border attached. Wallpaper has pattern of undulating, serpentine lines forming symmetrical hourglass shapes. Between lines are grapevines and 3-leaf clovers. Printed in two blues, orange, black, grey and white on a blue ground. Border with festoons, drapery and tassels with a top band of a single row of chevrons and a bottom band of a continuous cord. Printed in green, beige, and pink on a white ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
Original To Short House Main House, Parlor
Unknown
1972.113A
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1972.113b
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1972.113c
Block Printed
wall fragment
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].