Textile Design with Alternating Vertical and Horizontal Rows of Pearls Over a Vermicular Pattern Formed with Dotted Lines
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 vermicular pattern formed with dotted lines of light tan color and outlined with dark reddish-brown stipples over a light tan ground with dark reddish-brown stipples, and alternating vertical and horizontal rows of pearls of white color with black outlines.
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