woven silk and metal thread bordered with woven silk and metal thread, backed with plain weave silk and faced with woven cotton.
The central panel is made from four pieces of fabric with a gold metal thread ground in a twill weave. The metal thread is gold strip close S-wound on a yellow silk core. The pattern is off-set rows of a flowering shrub with dark green leaves and stem and red and mauve flowers. It bends slightly to the left and is outlined with a silver metal thread which is silver strip S-wound on a white silk core.
Border: There is a wide border on four sides, pieced along the lower edge and with a diagonal seam in each corner. The fabric is striped: [1] a dark blue stripe with 5 different flowers woven in gold [gold strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core]; [2] gold ground, which seems to be the same type of metal thread, with a pale meandering stem linking two types of pink flowers and a light blue flower; there are light green leaves. There is a narrow chevron border between these two wider ones.
Backing: pieced; blue-grey silk.
Facing: striped cotton, bias-cut. Brown stripe and dark blue stripe with a small trefoil mtoif and a white stripe with a diagonal serrated blue leaf and a brown flowers and yellow details.