Name : Ibu Mangku
Date of birth : -
School : -
Home : Bali, Indonesia.
Beading Experience:
I used to work in an art shop in Ubud around 1980’s for a few years. Someday, on my way back home to my village on the west of Ubud, I passed by a shop that was selling especially beaded pieces and the one that attracted was a magnificent beaded basket. It was truly interested pieces and straight away I was into the piece. I encouraged myself to get some beads and a small basket to start learning to create this artwork. It took me many days to figure out the pattern on doing this artwork and was so happy with my progress day by day. You can imagine how happy I was when I could get my basket completely done and admired my works for days. After my first work, I have been happily doing basket by basket up to the present days.
I taught my husband and kids to do the beadworks like what I do. My husband is a temple priest and he hardly can be working away from our village like other men so he was so happy when I asked him to learn to bead. We have been passionately doing this work for around 20 years now. Our daughter is also falling in love in this work even if we never push her to do what we have been doing for 20 years. We have taught many people from our village to bead and there are many school children who are doing it to make extra money for their school. We are very happy to have a great opportunity to help others in our village and we love to invite everyone who loves this artwork to experience it with us. We always ready to share our experience in beadworks.
