Textile Design with Vertical Ribbons Framed by Undulating Strips of Pearls and with a Zig-Zagging Strip of Pearls with Alternating Rosettes Separated by Vertical Strips of Overlapping Scales

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 ribbons of light tan color framed by undulating strips of pearls and with a zig-zagging strip of pearls with alternating rosettes, separated by vertical strips of overlapping scales of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples. The pearls are colored with white; some of the pearls in the zig-zagging strip running along the ribbon are also outlined with red. The rosettes are colored alternatingly with orange, purple and green, and are outlined with white.