It’s the wrong color, and nobody has told me how a piece of brocade would neatly be affixed to the pall cloth allowing the reverse side to be seen, without leaving a thick seam that would keep the pall from being able to be accordion-folded so tightly as is seen in the images.
And that theory also depends on the pall NOT being accordion-folded when this image was taken. How many times do you think they so-very-carefully fold the pall in the course of a funeral?
It’s absolutely the right color and, after looking at the two images in context, I don’t believe that it is brocade.
The one image is from the family members standing in the center of the church without much sunshine reaching them. The other image is earlier in the morning where mourners are passing past and the Hawaiian sun is brightly streaming in. Both images show a darker flower/cross(?) against a lighter background. It’s obvious in the mourner photo that the pall is over-exposed. But the decorations are absolutely the same!
I don’t know what you’re using as an image editor. A very simple one I’ve used for years is IrfanView. If you bring up the washed out image and start do manual color correction (gamma, saturation) you’ll see that the washed out image more closely resembles the photo taken of it in lower lighting.
So... same pall, different lighting situations.