Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Stripes of Undulating Wheat Ears and Undulating Wheat Ears with Circles
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century Alsatian
Not on view
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 is made up of alternating vertical stripes of undulating wheat ears of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base with off-setting leaves, and undulating wheat ears of white color and black outlines with circles over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The circles are arranged in groups of three and of pink, purple, and orange color, with outlines in dark red color and shades in black.