The cloth is woven from flax damask, and depicts the symbolic figures of Athena with an olive branch as the sign of peace and wisdom, and Hercules as the messenger of the gods. The middle part bears the legend:
 

Uns hat die Vorsicht Frieden bescheret
Geschlossenen Frieden
zu Teschen
den 13.May 1779.
(Bestow upon us provident peace Peace declared in Cieszyn 13th May 1779)

      In the lower right corner there is a hand-embroidered red crown and the initials A.M.
      The peace declared on May 13th 1779 (on Empress Maria Theresa’s birthday) in Cieszyn ended the brief war between Austria and Prussia over the Bavarian succession. Cieszyn became, for a while, a political centre of the Europe of the time, visited by ambassadors of the states involved: Austria, Prussia, France, Russia, Saxony, the Rhineland-Palatinate and the Principality of the Two Bridges [Zweibrücken]. This occasion was marked by the issuing of many publications, graphics, medals and other commemorative objects, including the cloth presented here, probably the only one which has survived to this day.