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  • Sample Book (USA), 1948

    Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

  • Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

    Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

  • Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

    Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Shaggy-headed flower sprays with long pointed leaves filling horizontal band in serpentines. Floral guard border with decorated guard strips. In purples, bright turquoise and greens on a tan ground. One…

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Close-set horizontal repeat of flowering sprays. Flower and leaf guard band at bottom with decorated guard strips. In purples, bright turqoise and green on a dark tan ground. Long warp…

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Shawl border fragment with a horizontal repeat of two variants of vase and flowers in twining framework of stems with small leaves and flowers. Scrolling floral guard band with decorated…

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Band filled with flowering branches with large stylized flowerheads and many fine delicate leaves and berries. In light purple with darker purple details on a creamy white ground.

  • Shawl Border (India), early 20th century

    Border fragment with a row of large shaggy flowerheads in a framework of scrolling stem with a multitude of fine leaves and buds. In purples, bright turquoise and green on…

  • Sample Book, Wallpaper by Denst and Soderlund, 1952–53

    Includes, with color alternates, the following wallpapers: Trees, Twine, Broken Ladder, Checks, Round, The River, Deep Water, Lakatoi, Dandelion, Chameleon, Intracte, Singora Sail, Talisman. The book is setup to show…

  • Sample Book, Sculptured Wallcovering, 1951

    Samples of wallpaper imitating brick walls, straw matting, stone walls, wood grain, etc., in three-dimensional plastic.

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