Also read: Inside 6 beautiful interior projects in Northeast India, approved by AD editorsAs of 2026, Jesmina has now spent more than half of her life working with the crafts of Nagaland through Naga Heirloom, which she set up in 1993, with a single weaver. It has since grown into a hub that employs almost 500 women, while also working with craft clusters across the region and beyond. The Naga Heirloom Centre and the Zeliangs’ home, though, provide different framings of craft; the Centre is laser-focused on taking Naga craftsmanship to the world; the Zeliangs’ home is a more kaleidoscopic view of how they see the world. Her passion for fabrics is mirrored in her current working palette, which spans everything from wild ahimsa silk, to natural-dyed cotton, bamboo yarn, banana fibre and paper raffia. This is a woman only too happy to carry her work home.