Pattern was paramount for this sophisticated artist. A vibrant palette combines generous amounts of mustard and chartreuse with red, black, blue, and other greens. The interplay of abstracted motifs and geometric panels--some bordered, others segregated by carefully tailored forms--shows a creative eye, as does the extraordinary range of stitch-types and the selective use of white-on-white running stitches as a design element. The elongated peacocks surrounding the central lotus and the two rathas flanking it, with their tiers of striped arches, privilege graphic abstraction over legibility. The panel directly above the left ratha contains four striped triangles covered in leaf-shaped projections, perhaps a rendition of the simpler alpana motif of a rectangle with interior cross that may also reflect the ornamented rice mound (shri ) that is an important item in Bengali weddings. Darielle Mason, from Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal (2009), p. 209.