dark brown velvet front and back panels with blue stroud inter layer and dark red heavy silk lining fabric (maybe a curtain fabric?, woolen twine handle wrapped with strand of white beads

sewn of two vertical beaded strips sewn on to a stroud backing and folded at bottom, gathered at the top, size 10 beads on handle, size 13 beads on the body, paper patterns underneath the flowers and stems, small tubular beads

stylized flowers on stems, almost the same on both sides

SL: colours of the fabrics match those of the beads

RP assigned date based on earliest period of the popularity of two tone beadwork and the period during which workmanship of this high quality would have been done. CW thinks this velvet wouldn't be earlier than 1850