Border
date: label: Date
content: 1860–1890
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top and bottom borders with design imitating passementerie or drapery. Borders are printed on a striped sidewall paper. Printed in green flock and overprinted with brighter green, the top border is formed by intertwined lace or ribbon, forming sharp angles, with pendent tassels. Above this is a wider band of gimp or fancy ribbon. The bottom border is composed of the same lace or ribbon forming sharp diamond shapes. Within the diamond framework is a rosette. Between the diamond shapes is a patera within a rectangular framework. The sidewall is bands of stripes, alternating wide and narrow.
place: label: made in
content: England or France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Wallcoverings Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-50-386
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Type
content: Border
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block printed and flocked on continuous paper
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 76 x 50 cm (29 15/16 x 19 11/16 in.)