Kashubian embroidery is worked in seven thread colours on loosely woven undyed linen — three blues for sky, lakes and sea, green for forest and meadow, yellow for sand and ripening grain, red for blood and the setting sun, black for Kashubian earth. The count is fixed; the palette is not a preference.

Motifs grow from a stem rather than sitting in a grid. Tulip, cornflower, lily, pomegranate, carnation, palmette and acanthus branch off a trailing vine and lean out of true, with bees and beetles tucked between them. The linen shows through, and the outline swells and thins as the thread does.