The brief handed the dancers the base of the cloth: a full-width row of skirted figures caught mid-whirl, arms up and hems flared into swirl-lines, with the goddess seated calm on her cockerel in the arch above as the one they move for. The contrast of stillness above and motion below is the whole composition. The Vaghri (Devipujak) community of Gujarat, long kept from temple sanctums, painted the Mother onto cloth to carry their shrine with them, and dancers whirl before that very cloth to honour her at festival. Brick-red, iron-rust black, undyed cream: nothing else, because the limited natural-dye triad is the entire discipline.