Phurbu Kyipa

Phurbu Kyipa can weave a 6 x 3 foot carpet in twenty days. She learned this skill from senior weavers in the Tibetan Women's Association in Dheradun, India, where she settled after fleeing with her family from Tibet after 1959. She immigrated to New Hampshire in 1993 and her family followed a few years later. Although Phurbu made her living in India from carpet weaving, she is presently working in a medical services company in New Hampshire. Her carpet made from Australian wool, featuring round mandala-like motifs within geometric borders, was loaned to the 1996 Auspicious Signs: Tibetan Arts in New England exhibit by Sonam Lama.