Tejuben was born in Dhaneti and as a child migrated in Kutch, spending all but a few months of the rainy season wandering with the flock and a few pack camels, setting up rudimentary camps. Tejuben never attended school, but learned embroidery from her sister at age 11. Widowed at an early age, she began to do whatever manual labour was available with several other women of the village. She practiced the highly refined traditional embroidery until it was banned by the community elders in 1995. In 1998, Tejuben began to embroider with Kala Raksha. She feels sad at the loss of their rich tradition, but is happy to have the opportunity to embroidery commercially. Embroidery fulfills her, Tejuben says.

Tejuben has served as a mentor at Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya and was a design intern at Kala Raksha in 2010, funded by COMO Foundation.