Embroidered bag owned by Capt R Heathcote, Leicestershire Yeomanry, 1876 (c).
Uniform cloth, home made. Rectangular, open topped. The front is royal blue and embroidered centrally in white, yellow and pale blue silk. The embroidered design is a ribboned floral spray, surrounded by an eight-point stylised pattern of leaf-shaped knots made of white uniform piping interlaced with a regular internal pattern of embroidered trefoil leaves on scroll-cloth.  Upon either side are finely stranded white fringes.  The carrying straps at the top corners, both worn and perished.  Inside, the front is lined with yellow quilted silk, the back is lined with plain white silk.