Textile Design with a Pink, Blue and White Diagonal Checked Pattern Decorated with Outlined Stylized Flowers

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 is made up of a diagonal checked pattern made up of white (un-rendered) intersecting diagonal lines, with lozenges forming at the intersections colored with dark blue, over a hot pink ground. Half of the design is also decorated with floral motifs: the ascending diagonal lines are decorated with rosettes outlined with dark blue over an abstract honeycomb pattern, the descending diagonal lines with scales containing clover motifs of dark blue color, the intersections with rosettes outlined in white, and the pink lozenges from the background with stylized flowers with several layers of petals colored with light pink over an abstract honeycomb pattern.