Cover of silk damask in salmon pink and brocaded with gold thread and coloured silks. It is backed with plain salmon-opink taffeta much late in date, and edged with gilt braid. At each corner there is a tassel of silver-gilt thread and salmon pink floss silk. The design consists of vertical strips in silver-gilt thread and reverse damaask. These are intterupted by a cluster of exotic fruit and leaves with delicate semi-naturalistic flowers in blue and white silk or in deep pink and white silk. The gold leaves are edged with green silk. There is no complete repeat of the design either in the length or the width, but there are clearly 2 repeats in the width of the material.

Technical details
The damask is based on a satin of 5 ground. The pattern is bound in 4/1 twill by a proportion of threads taken from the ground warp. 2 kinds of metal thread are used, filé (2 threads in one shoot) and frisé, both consisting of a metal strip wound on a yellow silk core.