. . . "Pair of black silk velvet mittens with tabbed cuffs applied with black silk braid across the palm. The cuffs are edged with black silk fringe and lined with black silk plush. The gauntlets interlined with felted woollen cloth. The seams, palm-slits and thumbs bound with a narrow black silk braid (mainly missing). The gauntlets are slit into six square-ended tabs and are decorated round the wrists and along the tabs with applied bands of 1.25 inch black patterned braid. The edges are decorated with a narrow fringed braid."@en .