The Kundan of Bikaner
The Art of Jewellery|June 2020
Bikaner is a small town in the state of Rajasthan that has the world thronging at its doorsteps for three unique things.
The Kundan of Bikaner

1. Jadau Kundan Meenakari Jewellery

2. Junagarh Fort

3. Namkeen.

Jadau Kundan Meenakari handmade Jewellery craft is a 200 to 300 year legacy carrying down the finest secrets of Kundan Jewellery making. 80 percent of Kundan Jewellery that reaches out globally goes from Bikaner. Bikaner alone by heredity is home to approximately a chain of 3000 Kundan Craftsmen.

Siddharth Soni of Siddharth Soni creations is a manufacturer from Sonar- u - Ka - Mohalla, a small place in Bikaner populated with almost 300 Kundan artisans who have since centuries reinvented and perfected the art of Jadau Kundan Meenakari Craft.

Siddharth Soni is the fourth generation of an ancestry who has been specializing in making Kundan Jewellery for the Rajasthan Royals. Till today their name stands synonymous with honesty, authenticity, transparency and the best practices in the trade.

For Siddharth, Kundan always evokes a sense of wonderment and awe and the soul of Kundan craft carries the soul of a rustic mysticism that is rare and unique in today’s age of machine made jewellery.

My Great Grandfather had 30 to 50 Kundan Karigars working under his direction. He imbibed the skill from his great ancestry and passed it down to his children and slowly it became a well-established family business.

Hasli is a unique kundan creation. Not all Karigars can make a Hasli says Siddharth.

Of all the jewels in a Kundan trousseau.

Hasli needs more dexterity and is comparatively more challenging to make.

This story is from the June 2020 edition of The Art of Jewellery.

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