Embroidered hanging of green velvet with an all-over interlaced pattern worked in couched cord with red silk and silver-gilt thread. To the velvet are applied 37 panels of various shapes and sizes embroidered in coloured silks and silver-gilt thread, mainly in cross and tent stitches. In the centre is a large square panel of needlework with a border of red and yellow woven silk and an inner embroidered border of flowers and fruit; a hand holding a sickle descends from clouds and prunes the branch of a vine; inscription 'VIRESCIT VULNERE VIRTUS' (Virtue flourishes by a wound) with Royal Arms of Scotland and the monogram of Mary Queen of Scots. Eight octagonal panels of needlework contain monograms of Mary Stuart, Mary Elizabeth, and George Elizabeth Shrewsbury and embroidered emblems with mottoes. There are 28 smaller cross-shaped embroidered panels of birds, animals and fish, each with its name in a scroll design it. Lined with green silk.