Border
Cooper Hewitt

Border

1820–30

Block-printed and flocked on handmade paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Large pattern of intertwined ostrich plumes printed in irise or rainbow effect, green hibiscus flowers and leaves in continuous cable of yellows, greens, and browns; on ground of deep red flock. Bottom edge: in yellows and browns; laurel branches placed diagonally and shaded as if wrapped around horizontally streaked-as-if-rounded banding.

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