Textile Design with Thin Bundles of Flowers and Leaves and Undulating Ribbons with Rings

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 small bundles with red roses, green branches with leaves, and small rosettes with yellow petals and red pistils and undulating dark blue ribbons decorated with white rings with red stones, some of them presenting rosettes with white petals that form around the red stone, and some of them with two additional dark blue stones to the sides of the red stone. The design is set over an aquamarine ground and presents a playful recreation of "chintz" motifs that took place in the production of American textiles during the 1930s and 1940s, by using the traditionally used roses in an alternative way in conjunction with other figurative motifs.