Textile Design with Alternating Pearls over an Abstrack Honeycomb Pattern 1840 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 of alternating pearls of red color with a white highlight surrounded by a light tan shade, over a background of an abstract honeycomb pattern rendered with dark reddish-brown stipples over a light tan base.. Textile Design with Alternating Pearls over an Abstrack Honeycomb Pattern. Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century. 1840. Gouache