Textile Design of Horizontal Zig-Zagging Ribbons and Alternating Diagonal Groups of Three Pearls over a Striped Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design of Horizontal Zig-Zagging Ribbons and Alternating Diagonal Groups of Three Pearls 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 horizontal zig-zagging ribbons of light tan color with outlines of dark reddish-brown color with offsetting stipples of the same color and alternating groups of three diagonally-aligned pearls of white color over a background of stippled stripes of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base.

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