Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Stripes of Abstract Figures and Pearls

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 is made up of a light tan base and vertical stripes of abstract ornamental motifs with irregular outlines of dark reddish-brown color that alternate with vertical stripes of pearls of white color and black outlines.

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Stripes of Abstract Figures and Pearls, Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century, Gouache

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