Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Amoeba Figures and Vertical Garlands Decorated with Rosettes and Pearls Over a 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 textile design is made of an abstract honeycomb pattern rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan base, over which alternating vertical strips of aboeba-shaped figures and verical garlands with rosettes and pearls stand out. The amoeba figures are outlined with dots of light tan color and rendered with a smaller honeycomb pattern of dotted lines of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base. The vertical garlands consist of alternating rosettes of yellow color with red outlines and four pearls of white color as pistils and smaller rosettes of purple colo