Iti Tyagi
Iti Tyagi is an Indian fashioner and social business visionary. In 2015, she set up Craft Village which means to associate craftsmans making handiworks straightforwardly with purchasers and supporters. She got the 2018 Nari Shakti Puraskar in acknowledgment for her work engaging ladies. Iti Tyagi concentrated on Fashion Design and Clothing Technology at the National Institute of Fashion Technology. She then, at that point, concentrated on inside plan at the KLC School of Design in London.
Profession
Tyagi is an architect in the fields of metalwork, woodwork, glassblowing and weaving, and is likewise keen on economical turn of events. In 2017 and 2018, her work was highlighted in two Craft Béton extravagance assortments based on the utilization of concrete. This brought about a 2020 association to source makers making things for Craft Béton’s Delhi exhibition. In 2019, she displayed a table produced using concrete in the Louis Quinze style. She has additionally worked with the National Institute of Design and the Entrepreneurship Development Institute.
She started the social venture Craft Village with her better half Somesh Singh in 2015, planning to put individuals connecting with purchasers, along these lines assisting provincial craftsmans with meeting metropolitan supporters. She additionally set up India Craft Week, International Craft Day and the International Craft Awards. The Indian handiworks industry is relied upon to be valued at $60 billion constantly 2024, and in the 2018-2019 monetary year, the income of Craft Village was ₹26,700,000 (comparable to ₹28,189,701 in 2020). Through Craft Village, Tyagi prepared handiworks laborers from Balakatti, Firozabad, Kutch, Moradabad and Saharanpur.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tyagi planned concrete texture individual defensive gear (PPE) suits for wellbeing experts which are produced using half regular and half engineered materials. These suits have less natural effect when discarded, since ordinary suits are 100 percent manufactured. The third version of India Craft Week went online for 2020.
In 2021 Indian Craft Week got back to being an in person occasion at the British Council Building and the Bikaner House in New Delhi.It was organized in association with the British Council.
Basic entitlements
Tyagi established the gathering Pet Parents Association which advances the privileges of pets and their proprietors. She was spurred by her encounters as a canine proprietor living in Gurugram and New Delhi. The gathering really focuses on homeless canines, advances creature government assistance and addresses proprietors in conflicts with occupant government assistance affiliations.
Grants and acknowledgment
Perceiving her work engaging ladies, President Ram Nath Kovind gave Tyagi the Nari Shakti Puraskar on International Women’s Day in 2019. In the wake of getting it she said “I encourage each lady to emerge from their shells and to break the generalization”.
