Narrow decorative border strip with repeating white and orange diamond rosettes and stripes on dark blue-green paper.

Border, block-printed handmade paper, 1790–1810

A long, narrow strip of block-printed handmade paper with a repeating ornament. Diamond-shaped rosettes in orange and white alternate with stacked white motifs and fine striped bands on a dark blue-green ground, framed by a scalloped edge.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 1790–1810
Medium: Block-printed on handmade paper
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 2999 × 670 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1810).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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