In the last two decades, a wave of designers and craft collectives has re‑imagined puku bommalu as platforms for modern narratives. , a prominent textile artist, creates dolls clad in handloom fabrics that celebrate the revival of pattu (silk) weaving by women cooperatives. Others, like the Karnataka‑Andhra Collaborative , craft dolls representing women in diverse professions—engineers, doctors, artists—thereby expanding the visual lexicon of what an Andhra girl can aspire to be.