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Designer Joymati Devi combines talent & toil to reach the pinnacle
- The Telegraph -
Khelen Thokchom | Thursday , May 19 , 2011
Laifrakpam Joymati Devi, 47, has painstakingly designed her success, knitting a pattern with diligence and painting it with a passion for excellence.
Her journey started at a very tender age. The world of colours used to fascinate little Joymati. By the time she was 10, she was extracting dyes from flowers to paint her drawings. As a teenager, Joymati could paint photographs of Hindi film actresses like Hema Malini by looking at Filmfare magazines bought by one of her uncles.
The largest cottage industry in Manipur, the handloom industry provides employment to a large number of women and talented artists like Joymati the opportunity to demonstrate their skills. It offers a wide scope to display talent — from the traditional but expensive mapan naiba phanek, a woman’s long skirt knitted by hand or machine, to the trousseau.
According to a recent national handloom census report, Manipur has 2.71 lakh looms and 2.8 lakh weavers, mostly women. So huge is the industry that the state does not need to buy products like bedsheets, bedspreads, pillow covers, mosquito nets, curtains, salwar kameez and kurtas from elsewhere.
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