Kanchanben is the second of four children, and has 2 brothers and 1 sister. Both of her parents were born in Sindh, and migrated to India in 1972. Her father does tile polishing. Her mother is from Shivnagar, Rajasthan- near Barmer. One brother works in the nearby Jindal steel plant. Kanchanben liked school a lot and would have liked to study further but when she finished 7th grade, the last in the village at the time, there was no one to go with her to high school in the next town, Bidada.

Kanchanben learned embroidery because others were learning, she says. Then she embroidered for Shrujan, to earn. She feels that a good artisan needs to know colour, composition, proportion and time management. She has seen girls' interest in traditional work decline, and she herself has embroidered dowry pieces for community members who did not want to embroider. But she feels that if they set a good example, embroidery will continue. She says that it is only because the Permanent Faculty member Harishbhai is her uncle that she and her sister Jayshriben could come to KRV. Here, she wants to learn. "If we can do embroidery completely, in a new way, we can do something," she says. She dreams of becoming a designer, and would also like to learn tailoring.