Textile Design with Vertical Rows of Alternating Lenses of Two Different Sizes Bordered by Pearls Separated by Vertical Scrolls of Ribbons Over a Stippled Background
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 vertical rows of alternating vertical lens-shapes of two different sizes bordered by pearls, separated by vertical scrolls of ribbons of light tan color with shades formed by stipples of dark reddish-brown color, over a light tan background with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The larger lenses are of dark red color and are positioned over a star-like shape rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples; the smaller lenses are of black color with an off-setting shade of dark reddish-brown stipples of the same lens shape. The pearls are of white color with black outlines.
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