Plain weave cotton, seamed along the lower edge, embroidered with silk in straight and chain stitches, backed with plain weave roller-printed cotton and faced with bias cut plain weave cotton.
The unbleached cotton field is printed or marked with highly visible brown lines [under drawing]. The arched field is embroidered with pink flowers on a ground of quilted scales in white. The area beneath the point of the arch has parrots around the prayer-stone roundel. The spandrels are covered with a dense ogival lattice in green with pink buds. The border is worked with pink floral sprays on a green stem against the quilted scales of the ground. The border is flanked by two narrow bands of meandering foliage with pink buds, with a single band along the bottom edge.
Backing: cotton printed in orange and green with flower-filled botehs within interlinked foliate hexagons against a dark blue ground.
Facing: dark blue cotton, bias cut, possibly added later.embroidered & quilted, 1800s, Persian