Embroidered hanging of green velvet with an all-over interlaced pattern worked in red silk and silver-gilt thread. To the velvet are applied 27 panels of various shapes and sizes embroidered in coloured silks and silver-gilt thread in cross, tent and broad chain stitches. In the centre is a large square embroidered panel with monograms WC, EC and ES, arms of Sir William Cavendish and date 1570. In the central panel a tear fall from clouds onto smoking quicklime with the motto 'EXTINCTAM LACHRIMAE TESTANTUR VIVERE FLAMMAM' (Tears witness that the quenched flame lives). Four octagonal embroidered panels with emblems and monogram of George Shrewsbury. Twenty-two smaller cross-shaped embroidered panels of birds, animals, fish, each with its name in a scroll beside it. The central panel is edged with silver and silver-gilt bobbin lace. Lined with green silk.