Dress fabric of brocaded silk. Warp-faced plain weave ground.
Warp: red silk, possibly Z twist
Weft: silk: red, white, dark grey, green, light blue, dark blue, pink, indeterminable twist
Metal thread: silver strip S-wound on a yellow silk core, indeterminable twist; both open and closed winding.
Red ground with an incomplete design: there is one row with three isolated floral plants. The outer pair are in grey and white with a pink bud and the central one is in dark and light blue with a white bud, all with green leaves and edged in yellow. In between each plant there is a facing butterfly in similar colours and at the base of each plant there is an opposed butterfly in either pink and green or white and green.Dress fabric of brocaded silk, Iran, 1800-1850