These nakshikantha are made during their leisure times particularly during the rainy season or before the bitter winter invades the villages of the Ganges delta.

The motifs of the Nakshikanta depict often hindu festivals, folk festivals,marraige ceremonies,lotus,Lord Buddha´s footprint, different fishes, snakes, boats,Tom-Tom, flowers, elephants, umbrellas, Rathajatra(Procession of Chariots), Swastika( symbolizing the early Indus valley civilization), trees,wheels as universal order, etc.,etc. The muslim women especially concentrate on the geometrical motifs. Still in the remote villages of Bangladesh the expectant mothers own their last trimester of the pregnancy by making Nakshikantha for the new-born baby believing that wraping the newborn baby by Nakshikantha heralds fortune to the family and protects the baby from inflicting disease. Like Russian woodendolls Matriushka, one can never find two similar Nakshikanthas in this planet. Sri Chaitanya(1485-1533), the hindu krishna- cult prophet and reformist draped him often with Nakshikantha .

Since the emergence of Bangladesh 1971 has Nakshikantha regained its esthetical values. 1990 at the Edinburgh Folk Festival for the Commonwealth Countries drew Nakshikantha the best attention by winning a prestigious prize. Among the priceless art collections of Queen Elisabeth-II, ex- President Bush, Pope Johannes Paulus, Robert MacNamara and late President Mitterand all of them has a common possession that is a piece of Nakshikantha .