Textile Designwith Vertical Stripes with Tiny Stylized Flowers Over a Checked Pattern

Vertical panel with a textile design that is part of a group of 266 textile designs by the American artist Robert Bryer, possibly made for United Designing Co., since most of the designs carry a stamp of the "United Designing Co. / WOrth 4 - 8975". Some of them also contain a stamp in the verso of the "Original Designing Company, Inc."
The collection contains a great variety of designs, from the more traditional floral and stripe patterns, to thematic designs based on various travel destinations, with palm trees and other holiday attributes. Especially interesting among these are patterns inspired by textiles and paintings of Native American tribes, including the Inca, Navajo, Aztec and Maya. The patterns are composed of semi-abstract figures distributed across the design in a regular or, in some cases, a more casual fashion. The spontaneity of designs and the use of floral and animal motifs suggest they were created for printed textiles in the forties.
This textile design consists of vertical strips of small stylized flowers over a dark blue stripe with tiny offsetting thorns over a background made up of thin horizontal red lines framed by two white lines and vertical dark blue lines separated by thin white lines. Five dark blue stripes form between the floral garlands, and the rectangles formed in the middle are diagonally-split in half, the upper-left half colored with light blue. The strips of flowers are made up of alternating red roses with green stems and leaves, stylized blue tulips with green stems and leaves, and small rosettes with yellow petals, red pistils and green stems with leaves.