Textile Design with Bundles of Stylized Flowers and Leaves and Horseshoe Motifs Decorated with Pearls and Rosettes

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 bundles of stylized flowers colored with red, blue and yellow and green leaves, and stylized horseshoe motifs of blue, green, yellow and red color decorated with different combinations of white, red and blue pearls, rosettes of blue-and-white, red-and-white and dark blue color. The stylized flowers include what look like roses, tulips and daisies.