For the past 30 years, Judy Frater lived in India, devoting her life to saving traditional crafts in Gujarat, a northwest state with some of India’s most exquisite weaving and embroidery traditions. She founded a design school for artisans that’s India’s first, with a graduate course in business and management as well as a textile museum. In te interview with University of Washington Magazine she speaks about Somaiya Kala Vidya and empowering local artisans.

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