A piece of red brocade with a confronting bird design, preserved in Gansu Provincial Museum is incomplete, severely polluted and badly deteriorated. The brocade needed to be restored. Before restoration, nondestructive analysis using a color photometer, portable fluorescence spectrophotometer, digital camera and handheld portable microscope scalar were done. Objective and reliable data were collected on this piece of brocade in order to determine its weave structure and dye components, in order to provide scientific guidance for the subsequent protection and restoration. The fixed support method was adopted to stitch and reinforce the piece. The difficulties encountered during the restoration are analyzed. This piece of brocade looks solid in texture and coordinated in color after restoration.This conservation result can be a reference for similar restoration and research in the future.