Rectangular cotton textile worked in two bands of couched embroidery and two bands in drawn and pulled threadwork. Five roundels have been couched in metal-wrapped thread. These are set within a heavily embroidered green ground. The upper band of drawn and pulled threadwork, has a cross and double-diamond pattern, worked in dark brown and beige cotton threads and the lower band uses the same materials as the upper drawn threadwork, but the pattern is a repeating single diamond.
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