Carte-de-visite depicting a full-length portrait of Princess Louise. She is sitting on a chair at a spinning wheel, facing three-quarters right. On the left of the wheel is a distaff, which has a bundle of textile fibres on it for spinning. Princess Louise is holding some of the fibres using both hands. There is a bobbin with yarn on it in the middle of the wheel, and the thread is attached to the driving wheel. A curtain is hanging on the left of the photograph.