Textile Design with Trefoil Knots Framed by an Interlacing Honeycomb Pattern with 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 alternating rows of trefoil knots framed by an interlacing honeycomb pattern of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base decorated with pearls framed by circles, and with offsetting thorns rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color, over a background of light tan color with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The knots are colored alternatingly with purple, orange, and green, and are outlined with red. The pearls are of white color.