Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Garlands of Stylized Leaves and Branches Decorated with Quatrefoils with an Ornamental Frame and Rosettes with Pearls 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 up of alternating vertical garlands of stylized leaves of black color with light tan outlines and offsetting branches of tan color decorated with pearls and smaller vertical garlands of branches of light tan color with offsetts colored with tan. One of the larger garlands is decorated with quatrefoils of cream color outlined with black containing a small rosette of black color flanked by two stylized leaves inside an ornamental frame of red color with outlines of cream color. One of the smaller garlands is decorated with small stylized flowers of five petals of red col