Constructing a dharki (quilt) can take Sajnaben up to two and a half months. She made over 25 dharki for her daughter’s dowry but still has about 150 quilts in her home. This quilt was made “three years before the earthquake”—a reference to the 2001 tremor that destroyed large parts of Gujarat’s Kutch region and killed over 12,000 people there. Sajnaben says that many people in Kutch reckon time based on that traumatic event.