Fragment of floral wallpaper border. Dark red flowers and berries with green foliage against a pale blue background. Flowers grow from behind and spill over two bands running along the lower edge of the border. The uppermost of these two bands is olive with ochre pin dots; the lower band is ochre. Both bands are edged with black stripes. A black stripe also runs along the upper edge of the border. Roller-printed in black, pale blue, ochre, two olives, two reds on olive ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
4 5/8 x 24 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.920
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Border
Machine Made
Floral
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