Textile Design with Thin Garlands of Red and White Flowers and Leaves over a Blue 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 is made up of a checked background of intersecting vertical and horizontal blue lines decorated with thin diagonal undulating lines of either light blue color or dark blue color over a dark blue ground. Above this pattern stand out vertical garlands with thin branches with leaves, small red-and-white rosettes and small red and white flower buds, framed by two thin vertical white lines that also mark the side borders of the checks upon which the garlands run over. The light blue checks under the garlands are decorated with tiny white dots.