Lachhuben was born in Sanosara, the eldest of nine children. Her father herded camels, 50 or 60 for Danetah Jats. Until she was about 10 they migrated with the herd. One of her brothers herds sheep and goats, one is in the Middle East, and one does farming. Lachhuben did not go to school. She learned embroidery on her own from her friend circle at the age of 12 or 13. She recalls that her mother’s dowry embroidery was Dhebaria Rabari. Her mother’s maternal aunt was married into a Dhebaria village (Dova), and her mother employed a Dhebaria artisan. At the age of eighteen, Lachhuben married. She has two sons and two daughters, aging 14-21. One son went to work in the Seychelles while she was at KRV. Her husband works in a vadi in Bharapar and stays there. She has traveled to Haridwar, Dhudrej, Junagadh and Ramdev Pir. Lachhuben feels that embroidery is essential. “We have to embroider.” she says. If we don’t embroider, we’ll forget and it will be gone.” She knows machine embroidery, and does it for sale. She has also worked with Kala Raksha for about a year and a half. In her opinion, good design is when all the colours work. A philosopher, Lachhuben believes that if we learn, it is for ourselves. “Since I have come to Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya,” she says, “I have to do something.” She hopes to grow and move ahead through the experience.