Two Line Meanders

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Left Facing

You can see a left-facing swastika in the pattern (the Nazis used a right-facing one). It makes for pretty corners.


320 Floor border: P320 Park Slope Historic District I 1901
Small mahogany bands are 1/4" wide. Inner maple bands are 3/8", making total band 1-1/2" wide. Oak spacing blocks are 1-1/2" wide, making the pattern border 7-1/2" wide. Surrounded by 1-1/2" oak and 2" oak. Inner field is 2" slats in 12" fingerblock.
316 Floor border: P316 Prospect Park South Historic District 1906
Stripes are 1-1/4" wide, making the pattern border 6-1/4" wide. Surrounded by 2" oak, then 1" mahogany. Inner field is 2" diagonal slats.
96 Floor border: P096 Bedford-Stuyvesant 1897
Border pattern width is 6", making the strip width 1.2". It is surrounded by feature strips of 2" oak and 1" mahogany. Inner field is diagonal fingerblock in four strips of 2" × 8".
231 Floor border: P231 Crown Heights North 1897
Banding and spacing is 1-1/4" giving a pattern border width of 6-1/4". It is surrounding by 1-5/8" or 1-7/8" wide oak, then surrounded with 2" oak. Inner field is diagonal fingerblock with six 2" slats in a 12" square.
144 Floor border: P144 Park Slope Historic District 1891
Mahogany bands and space between are 1-5/16". Pattern border is 6-9/16". Surrounding bands are 1-5/8" wide. Inner field is 1-3/8" strips in 12-3/8" fingerblock.
188 Floor border: P188 Stuyvesant Heights Historic District 1892
Overall pattern border is 6" wide. Ribbon width is 1/5 of that. Surrounding oak is 2" wide. The mahogany strip is 1". Inner field is diagonal 11" fingerblock with 1-3/8" fingers.
258 Floor border: P258 Park Slope South c1905

Right Facing

189 Floor border: P189 Stuyvesant Heights Historic District 1892
The ribbon has 9/16" mahogany and 1/4" maple bands. The oak between the ribbons is 1-1/4" wide. Giving a pattern border of 6-5/8". Surrounding is 1-3/4" oak, 1-5/8" cherry and 2" oak. Inner field is diagonal fingerblock with 2" fingers in 8" square.
217 Floor border: P217 Crown Heights North II c1907
All banding is 1-3/8" wide, giving a pattern border of 6-7/8" wide. Surrounding is 1-1/2" oak. Inner field is diagonal fingerblock with three 1-1/4" and six 1-3/8" slats making a 12" square. The floor had a wax finish.
228 Floor border: P228 Bedford-Stuyvesant Year?
The floors in this house are being restored by the homeowner. Overall pattern width is 6-9/16" wide. Mahogany bands and oak background in the meander are 1-5/16" wide. Surrounded by 1-1/2" oak. Then surrounded with 1-3/8" oak, 3/8" mahogany, and 1-3/8" oak. Inner field is diagonal fingerblock with 2" slats in a 8" square.

Embellished

297 Floor border: P297 Ditmas Park Historic District c1900
191 Floor border: P191 Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District 1906
This is a wide border. This was in the parlor and down the middle of hallways. Strips are 1-1/8" wide, making the pattern border 14-5/8" wide. Surrounding is 2" oak and 1/2" mahogany, making the entire border 19-5/8" wide. There was no corner block. Note interesting inner field. Field squares are about 12-1/4" wide.