The puanchei is the brightest of the Mizo puans — bridal cloth, festival cloth, the cloth of the Cheraw bamboo dance. It is woven on a backstrap loin loom in warp-faced plain weave, in strips narrow enough for one weaver's reach, then stitched into three panels.

The design follows the cloth exactly. A plain handspun white ground, crossed at intervals by dense black bands. Inside the bands, disul and halkha motifs step across in red, green, yellow, magenta and blue — never curved, because a supplementary weft can only land on a whole warp thread.