Dr. Rugmani Venkatadri is a backpacker, jewelry artist as well as a design educator at many institutes such as NIFT ( Mumbai), Whistling Woods International, SOFT ( Pune) , Institute of Design Management and others. She is an avid reader, culture vulture, animal lover as well as a believer in a holistic healthy lifestyle.

Hailing from Mumbai, her educational background is a mix of fashion and culture. After pursuing Fashion Design from SNDT Mumbai, she worked in the fashion industry as a designer for a while prior to becoming an educator.  She has done her doctoral thesis on the headgear of the Brokpas of Ladakh, after her double M.A in History and Ancient Indian Culture.

Rugmani is someone who crafts for her soul, and loves creating jewelry inspired from her travels that are all about the nature and the people inhabiting the destinations she visits.  Her creations, whether a neck piece or a key chain or a wall-piece, are handcrafted with varied media such as yarn, fabric, beads and more. She aims at inspiring at least one person per day to create their own. Never without her work-basket, she is all the time working on a beading project or a weaving experiment or a knitting artifact even when she travels, working with her fingers is an elixir for her as well as her prayer, meditation and trance.