Border
Cooper Hewitt

Border

1820–40

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

Design consists of a "patchwork style" imbrication of irregular shapes containing stylized trees. The edgings are the reverse of one another: narrow bands of s or reverse-s shapes connecting partially petalled discs. Printed in red, yellow, blue, green, black and white.

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