200+ Families. Six States. One Mission.

Third-generation lac-turner. Trained on the manual lathe since he was nine. Anwar runs a workshop of six artisans and supplies most of the Channapatna stacking toys and rattles in the Woodeon catalogue. His daughter Asma is the only woman lac-turner in the village.

Fourth-generation woodcarver, specialising in folk masks descended from the wedding-procession traditions of north India. Imran carves; his wife Nasreen does the natural-pigment painting.

A National Award winner (2019) for her Mithila painted wooden panels. Sunita has trained 40+ women in her village in the kachni and bharni styles. Every Woodeon Madhubani piece is painted in her studio or by an artisan she certifies.

Lakshmi paints in the traditional Warli style — rice paste on a clay-red wash — but applies it to seasoned mango wood instead of mud walls. She leads a 12-woman collective and is the sole female master in her cluster of villages.

Lalbihari hand-paints devotional folk motifs onto seasoned wood, mixing his own mineral colours by hand.