Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Stylized Flowers Decorated with Pearls and Alternating Rows of Amoeba Shapes Made with Dots over an Abstract Honeycomb Pattern Background 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 rows of stylized flowers with three petals and four leaves decorated with pearls framed by alternating rows of amoeba shapes made of dots of light tan color over a background containing an abstract honeycomb pattern rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base. The flowers are of orange and purple color, with outlines of red color, and with a trefoil shape of white color with a red shade forming the pistils of the flower. The pearls are of white color. The interior of the amoeba shapes is