5 August 2024/
ICONIC TRADITIONAL ECO-FRIENDLY TOTE WITH LAVISH BUTTERFLIES, COWS, CHILDREN PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK BLENDED WITH SIMPLICITY OF LIFE
This true story – the story of COCOON happened in the lusty hamlet of Malappuram, Kerala.
The one-of a unique Tote bags featuring – “nave and pantheistic representations testifying to a figurative lavishness” portraits of Internationally acclaimed autodidact artist Murali Nagapuzha, well stitched and embroidered by few women artisans and Kudumbashreee workers of Malappuram draws attention now.
It takes no time to start the most aspirational eco-friendly project – COCOON with a few unemployed women of Kohinoor near the University campus of Kozhikode years back.
“I am very much fascinated to work with this eco-friendly traditional Tote bags, using the print works of the eminent artist, depicting his most nostalgic memories of flora and fauna: cows, birds, dears, insects, all humans and others in village or rural scenarios or focussed ecologies which blend us,” says the engineer turned entrepreneur Sindhu Palapra, the founder of Cocoon Eco-Bags.
The Tote bag embroidered with Nagapuzha’s hyper- realistic or photo-realistic artistic mystery resonates the entrepreneur’s vision of generating employment to her lusty village folks and utilising most eco-friendly materials of Cotton, Jute and others to make beautiful Tote bags to be sold in various stalls of Exhibitions, Schools, government and other institutions now.
“We have initiated the launch of a new collection of hand-made tote bags with the paintings of renowned artist Murali Nagappuzha, stylishly printed on them by women in our Kudumbashree. This is for the first time that tote bags are printed by paintings of an eminent artist in Kerala. I have chosen his prints as a mark of its ecological narrativeness,” said Sindhu Palapra.
Recently the Cocoon bagged the PM Yuva Yojana Best Enterprise Scale-up award by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (NSDE), Government of India.
“I am confident in generating employment, also assisting few disabled and autistic kids in my village,” she added.
Now it has become iconic to carry this traditional and of all sizes for everything!!
The students, housewives, office-goers, poets, artists and all are proud of.
