Textile Design with a Diagonal Checked Pattern with Stylized Squared 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 a checked pattern over a black ground. The checked pattern is made up of intersecting diagonal stripes of pink color with stylized rosettes with square petals of green and white color, joined by thin stripes of yellow color over thinner intersecting diagonal lines of yellow color decorated with stylized rosettes with four square-shaped petals of pink color around a square of white color separated by diagonal strips of two green squares and a black square. The larger black spaces left by the checks are decorated by groups of nine squares of green, pink and yellow color.