Three identical square napkins made from naturally coloured ramie (from the family Urticacea genus Boehmeria) commonly called China grass, grass cloth or grass linen.
Each has a drawn threadwork border. Across one corner of each is a design of a dragon among clouds in double-sided embroidery executed in white thread in satin stitch and stem stitch.
Napkins curtains, handkerchiefs and other small ramie items were exported to Europe and America during the nineteenth century and probably into the twentieth century. The white on white effect and the drawn threadwork would not have been native Chinese techniques.