Textile Design with a Seamless Pattern of Striped Roundels and Curved Lozenges of White and Red Color

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 particular textile design is made up of a seamless pattern of dark blue roundels with alternating thin stripes of dark blue color and thin intermittent stripes of white color over a background colored with a lighter shade of blue. The curved lozenge shapes formed between the circles are rendered alternatingly with red and white border and with dark blue and the color of the background forming the border.