Dress fabric of brocaded silk and metal thread. The ground is dark red warp-faced plain-weave with dark red silk warp and pink silk weft. The brocading wefts are white, dark blue, green, red and dark brown silk and metal thread which is silver strip open S-wound on a white silk core. The edges of the fabric are cut.
There are three rows of the pattern in which the same motif faces the opposite direction in alternate rows. There is a bird with large plumes on its head, sitting on a curved branch with a flower and an upright spray of buds. It is worked in either white, blue, green and brown or in white, brown, green and red. The colourways alternate. Above the spray of buds is a butterfly, between them is an upward pointing fish and below the fish is a horse-shoe shaped 'cloud'.