Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Ribbons Framed by Garlands of Stylized Leaves and with Pearls and Dots Running Along the Middle and with Offsetting Branches with Stylized Leaves Separated by Undulating Strips of Alternating 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 undulating ribbons of light tan color framed by garlands of stylized leaves and with a strip of stipples of dark reddish-brown color with pearls and dots running along the center of the ribbon, and with offsetting branches with stylized leaves rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color, separated by undulating strips of alternating pearls of the size of those in the garlands and smaller ones. The larger pearls are colored alternatingly with orange, purple, and green,