Yovita Meta
Yovita Meta is an Indonesian fashion designer and crafts artist. Meta was born on December 4, 1955, in Kefamenanu, West Timor. In 1990 she founded the nonprofit organization Sanggar Biboki (Tafaen Pah Foundation).
Yovita Meta
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- 1955
- Nationality
- Indonesia
- Occupation
- fashion designer · artist
- Honours
- Prince Claus Award
- Languages
- Indonesian
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Yovita Meta is an Indonesian fashion designer and crafts artist. Meta was born on December 4, 1955, in Kefamenanu, West Timor. In 1990 she founded the nonprofit organization Sanggar Biboki (Tafaen Pah Foundation).
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Yovita Meta (born 1955) is an artist and fashion designer, of Indonesian nationality.
Languages used include Indonesian. Honours include Prince Claus Award.
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Her initiative was received enthusiastically and within some ten years her organization grew to 406 women weavers in 25 self-managing groups. Next to that she keeps up working with local styles and techniques, such as ikat, tapestry weaving and supplementary weft. In 1992 her work was rewarded with the Upakarta Prize of the Indonesian government, for her hard work in developing home industry in her birthplace. In 2003 she was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands, for her renovating designs and her modernization of old techniques.
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Yovita Meta is recorded as having received Prince Claus Award.
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