A large piece of black silk cloth embroidered on one side with gilt metal and silver thread with Arabic script, partly on pink and green silk backing. Accompanied by a smaller square piece of black silk, also embroidered with Arabic script in gilt thread. In a velvet covered chest.

This fine panel of embroidery is part of the Kiswah, or curtain, used to cover the Ka’ba at Mecca. Every year a new one is made and the old one cut up to distribute to pilgrims. Queen Mary was presented with two pieces from the door panel sections of the Kiswah by the King of Hejaz (now Saudi Arabia) in 1918. The circle in the middle contains the first four verses of chapter 112 of the Qur'an, Surah al-Ikhlas (the Unity, or Sincerity). The invocation 'Allah, great is His splendour' (Allahu jalla jalalahu) is repeated on the four corners.