Textile Design with Rosettes Forming Hexagonal Shapes Around Swirls
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century Alsatian
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Rectangular sheet of paper with a textile design from a group, dated 1840, made in Mulhouse, Alsace, which was an important nineteenth-century center for textile production in the Haut-Rhin region of France. The design background consists of swirls rendered with stipples of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base. Over the background, rosettes with five petals of light tan color, and with with five pearls forming the pistils, align forming hexagonal shapes around the swirls. The outline of the petals is of dark red color. The pearls are of white color and outlined in black. Five of the swirls contain a pearl, colored in white and outlined in black; repeat is left unfinished.
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