Techie Weaver From Odisha’s Barpali Walks The Ramp At Lakme Fashion Week 2018

Bidyabati has been working for the NGO, in an attempt to change certain traditional works of Barpali, while Sabyasachi Patra works in Nuapatna and Utkarsh Rajwant guides the same in Barbanki. “It mostly includes motifs and layout giving it a contemporary twist. The most important aspect, however, is to digitize the process under the initiative Digikargha,” she added.

A student of digital literacy, she later trained in software. “I started working on it after completing my studies and I enjoy doing it,” said the young techie.

She, along with some others, has been giving digital training like understanding and implementing a software that the weavers can use to bring sustainable growth to their livelihood. “The weavers were earlier working with handmade graph designs, traditional motifs and traditional process. Now, they are working with digital graphs i.e. graphs and its layouts made on a computer,” she said.