Textile Design with Vertical Scrolling Garlands of Branches with Stylized Tulips and 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 vertical scrolling garlands of branches of light tan color with an offsetting shade rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color decorated with stylized tulips with stems and two leaves decorated with pearls, over a background with dots of dark reddish-brown color over a base of light tan color with dark reddish-brown stipples. The tulips are colored with yellow and purple and have red outlines, and the pearls are colored with white.. Textile Design with Vertical Scrolling Garlands of Branches with Stylized Tulips and Pearls. Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century. 1840. Gouache