Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Undulating Honeycomb Pattern with Branch Offsets and Undulating Garlands of Pearls with Alternating Offsetting Wheat Ears and Pairs of Circles 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 undulating garlands of honeycomb pattern of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base with offsetting branches of dark reddish-brown color and undulating garlands of pearls with alternating offsetting wheat ears and pairs of circles over a bakcground of light tan color with dark-reddish brown stipples. The pearls and wheat ears are of white color; the circles are of purple, orange and green color.. Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Strips of Undulating Honeycomb Pattern with Branch Offset