Single Folded Open Ribbon

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Accordion Fold: 90°

268 Floor border: P268 Crown Heights circa 1903
Has extra stripes in the background.
308 Floor border: P308 South Midwood c1910
Border pattern is 5-1/4" wide. Slats used for ribbon are 1-3/4" wide. Right sides of the filler triangles are 2-3/8" wide. Surrounded by 1-3/8" oak, 1/2" mahogany, and 2" oak. Inner field is 2" diagonal slats.
300 Floor border: P300 Ditmas Park West circa 1925
Inner pattern is 4" wide, surrounded by 1/2" maple, 1/2" mahogany, 1" oak, 1-1/2" mahogany, and 2" oak. Inner field is diagonal fingerblock with 1-3/8" and 1-1/4" strips in a 12" square.
106 Floor border: P106 Midwood Park Historic District 1904
The pattern width is 4". The side strips are 1/2" for the maple and mahogany, and 1" for the oak. Giving an overall border width of 8". Ribbon is 1-1/2" wide. The inner field is 2" diagonal slats.
34 Floor border: P034 Midwood Park 1907-1908
The pattern width is 4". The first oak strip is 1/2", the mahogany strip is 1/2" and the outer oak strip is 1". Making a total border width of 8". Ribbon is 1-1/2" wide. Spacing calculated from those.
291 Floor border: P291 Prospect Park South 1908
31 Floor border: P031 Fiske Terrace 1906
Folded. Border width is 5". Width of parallelograms calculated from that. Walnut strips are 1-3/8". Oak strips are 1-1/2". Making a total border width of 10-3/4".
67 Floor border: P067 Ditmas Park 1904
287 Floor border: P287 Crown Heights 1906

Accordion Fold: 90°: Banded

305 Floor border: P305 Ditmas Park West c1899
This has mahogany pinstripes on the ribbon. Ribbon center is 3" wide, with 1/4" wide pinstripes. Giving the border a width of 7-1/2". Surrounded by 1/2" mahogany and 1-3/4" oak. Inner field is 2" diagonal oak slats.

Uneven Fold

286 Floor border: P286 Crown Heights 1906
This is a two-twist open overlap that has been cut in half and used as an outer border.

Accordion Fold: 30°/120°

69 Floor border: P069 South Midwood 1910
Overall pattern width is 6-7/8". Mahogany bands are 1/2" wide. Inner field has diagonal slats 2" wide.
102 Floor border: P102 Bedford-Stuyvesant 1901
The same as the previous, but with different feature striping. Inner field is diagonal fingerblock is 2" wide strips in an 8" square.

Receding Fold

110 Floor border: P110 Park Slope 1909
Border pattern is 4-7/8" wide with 1-1/2" strips alongside. Giving a total border width of 7-7/8". Trapezoids are 1-3/8" high. Corner block is 4-1/8" with 3/16" border and then 1-5/8" border. Total block is 8-3/4" wide. The block does appear to be a little less! Field is 2" slats in 8" fingerblock.

Triangle Fold

296 Floor border: P296 Ditmas Park Historic District c1900

Square Fold

All of these have the same dimensions. All were installed during a short time stretch. Five color banded folded ribbon. Woods: walnut: 1/2", maple: 1/2", mahogany: 1", maple: 1/2", walnut: 1/2". Border width is 6". Lots of 30°/120° angles in this one. Surrounding strips are " oak, 1/2" mahogany and " oak.


123 Floor border: P123 West Midwood 1908
152 Floor border: P152 Ditmas Park 1907
155 Floor border: P155 Crown Heights North Historic District II 1909
This one has an extra plank between the border and inner field. They are mitered. The planks on the outside are never mitered.
170 Floor border: P170 Fiske Terrace 1908
Inner field is 2" slats laid diagonally.
35 Floor border: P035 Midwood Park 1907-1908