Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Horizontal Strings of Lozenges with Over a Striped Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Horizontal Strings of Lozenges with Over a Striped Background — Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

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 vertical rows of horizontal strings of five touching lozenges with a stippled shade of brown color over a striped background of light tan and brown color. The lozenges are of white color and have black outlines.

Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
Date: 1840
Medium: Gouache
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library