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Table centre made from silk and cotton, with a white cotton machine-made lace border. The central machine embroidered panel shows the burning Cloth Hall at Ypres, Belgium, worked in coloured silks. Inscribed 'Souvenir d’Ypres' in blue silk thread.

Small, square shaped table centre with concentric borders made from cotton and silk with an embroidered image in the centre featuring a burning building in the Belgian city of Ypres. It is worked on fine blue silk habutai and embroidered by machine using coloured silk floss threads on the top and white cotton spool thread. The design depicts a large building probably the Cloth Hall which was badly damaged by a series of battles which took place in and around the city. The building is made out in grey silk with red and yellow flames and explosions around it. The words 'Souvenir d’Ypres' are worked above it in blue silk. The centre is bordered by white cotton lace (5cm wide). The lace design features a chain of daises and circles, both edges are straight and the corners are mitred. The next border is made from blue silk satin ribbon (4.7cm wide) it has been cut into strips and gathered into pleats. The outer border of white cotton lace (7.4cm wide) is joined to the blue silk in one section with a seam in the upper right corner, it is pleated at the corners to fit. It is machine made lace featuring a net background and a repeating floral sprig design, the top edge is straight and the bottom has a picot edge. The borders are sewn together by machine with white cotton thread. In the corners of the blue border there are double looped bows made from cream silk satin ribbons (1.5cm wide)