This border, embroidered in red silk on natural-colored linen, illustrates biblical vignettes from the life of King David. When viewed from left to right the story unfolds: Bathsheba is having her feet bathed by a handmaiden as David leans out of a tower window; David, seated on his throne with crown and scepter and two soldiers behind him, orders Uriah (a Hittite soldier and Bathsheba's husband) to fight; finally, trumpeters proclaim David's triumph in the slaying of Goliath and the king is shown holding Goliath's head. The scenes are set in a landscape with large-scale flowering trees, exotic birds, tents, and a fountain; narrow upper & lower borders are worked with a single row of stylized foliate sprigs. The entire composition is worked in Ceylon stitch and may have originally been part of a valance.