Textile Design with Bundles of Paisley Motifs and Stylized Flowers over a Checked Background

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 paisley motifs outlined with dark blue and white and colored with red and yellow and stylized roses of light blue color, light blue rosettes with yellow and dark blue pistils, and white rosettes with red and dark blue pistils over a checked background formed with dark blue lines over a military green ground. The paisley motifs contain decorative motifs inside: some of them are simply adorned with dark blue shuttle-shaped mothifs; one of them is adormed with stylized flowers.