Meera Thakur

Meera Thakur from Bihar in India practices and teaches sikki grass craft.

At the age of four she started to learn sikki grass craft from her mother, making adornments, vases and boxes.

[1] Sikki is a grass only found in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, which gives a golden fibre.

[2] Thakur lives in Madhubani, where she runs Hastakala Vikas Kendra, an organization which trains disadvantaged women in craftwork.

[4] The Delhi Crafts Council gave Thakur the Bal Shilpi Artist award in 1988 and she received the Seal of Excellence for Handicrafts from UNESCO in 2005.