Jivaben was born in Mindiara. Her family has sheep and goats, and her brother still migrates with the herds as far as Gujarat. Jivaben stayed home, but after marriage at age 18, she travelled with her husband, children and the herds in Pachham for ten years. Jivaben has 2 daughters, two sons, and nine grandchildren. Her husband died a year after the earthquake and her daughter sold their herds.

Jivaben embroidered from childhood. She did not learn it, she says. They knew it. “My work is good,” she confidently asserts. But traditional Dhebaria embroidery was banned by the community in 1995. Then came the earthquake of 2001. After that, when Jasuben began a group in Lodai, Jivaben began to embroider for Kala Raksha.

Jivaben has travelled to Delhi to participate in the Republic Day celebrations, and she went to Delhi once with Hasambhai the potter to sell embroidery.

Embroidery is identity, Jivaben says. And now it is livelihood. She feels that a good design should be full, and have detailing. Good stitches are first, but composition must also be good.

Though their traditional embroidery has ended, Jivaben feels that the future of Kala Raksha embroidery is good. It will keep growing- from 1 piece to 5, she says. "From the examples we set, women will come to KRV." "My dreams are with God," Jivaben says. She wants her children and grandchildren to get good jobs and be settled, have a comfortable life.