The complete piece may have been intended for use as a garment, clothing. Part of an embroidered fabric, possibly a garment, probably cut from a larger piece, and mounted on crimson silk fabric. The surface is covered with couched embroidery in flattened gold wire and gold-wrapped thread, and seed pearls, with added red and silver spangles. The design consists of five bands of flowers above a row of large buta, all surrounded by a band of scrolling flowers. Textile, possibly part of a waistband, silk with gold wire, gold-wrapped thread and pearl couching, Triplicane, ca. 1855-1879