Falcon's hood made of leather panels stitched together and tooled with gold. The side panels have applied crimson silk velvet embroidered with silver thread and purl in laid and couched work with in a floral design. There is an opening at the front for the bird's beak. Two braids of crimson silk and silver thread with knots and tassels are threaded through the back of the hood. Sticking up loosely through a hole in the top of the hood is an upright tuft of crimson silk and a metal thread wound on a wooden core.
The initials 'E B' are marked twice into the leather at the back of the hood, with the initial 'F' below, marked in a slightly different form.
There is a round paper label inside, hand written in ink with 'lot 164 old English hawk's hood used in hawking very rare'.