Chaturbhuj Meher

Chaturbhuj Meher is an Indian weaver, considered one of the master weavers of the Tie-dye handloom tradition of Odisha. Born on 13 October 1935 at Sonepur in Odisha, he had formal education only up to school level but learned the traditional weaving craft to join Weavers' Service Centre as a Weaver. Vayan Vihar, a handloom factory and Handloom Research and Training Center, a research institute in Sonepur have been founded by him and he is known to have trained over 10,000 craftsmen. He has twice been given the Odisha State Award, in 1991 and 1995, in addition to awards such as Chinta O Chetana National Award, Viswakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (1997) and Priyadarshini Award (2005).