Textile designer Juhi Pandey is based in Shillong, where she heads one of the units of the Centre of Excellence for Khadi (CoEK). But her last seven months have been mostly spent in Guwahati, the city closest to two Khadi institutions in Assam—Tamulpur Anchalik Gramdaan Sangh and Gram Swaraj Parishad Rangia, where she has held extensive artisans’ training in creating organic indigo vat, yarn dyeing, fabric softening, and most importantly, creating a brand identity for sarees made from the natural fibres of the Northeast.  

Pandey, along with a tiny team of design associates, handheld Tamulpur and Rangia spinners and weavers to make 12 limited edition khadi sarees made of native eri and mulberry silks. The sample sarees form a record of sorts because their weavers had so far only  made plain non-coloured chadars, gamchas and mekhalas.