Are craftspersons real designers? The story of Vimor Museum

At the Vimor Museum of Living Textiles in Bengaluru, revivalist Pavithra Muddaya has spent five decades reviving forgotten South Indian handloom weaves. What makes her work a design signal is a quiet choice. Some Vimor designs have circulated in the market for over 45 years without the brand’s name attached, because she believes design should be shared, not owned. She pushes her weavers to leave a bit of themselves in every piece. One added a flash of blue to every pallu, News Source: Elle India his tribute to Tamil Nadu’s painted doors, and called himself Bluemania. This is the opposite of how India usually credits craft, where the designer gets named and the weaver disappears. Muddaya’s museum argues that the person at the loom was the original designer all along. The museum now features a collection of about 60-70 sarees that have been carefully built over decades of Vimor’s research and revival work,

The museum now features a collection of about 60-70 sarees that have been carefully built over decades of Vimor’s research and revival work,