80 year old Mir Abdul Majeed, of Kalai Andar area of the old city of Srinagar, is an award winning aari embroidery artist from Kashmir. Aari staple or hook-work is a common form of embroidery, taken to another level by master artisan Mir Abdul Majid with his landscape embroidered pieces. One of his landscape works of the Srinagar city’s Hari Parbat fort was even kept as a souvenir by former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi and he went on to receive the state award in 2017 for his contribution to the art. He has written verses of Holy Quran, Urdu and Persian poetry on his art pieces.

Mir Abdul Majid’s workplace, located at Kathi Darwaza has been included in the ‘Srinagar Crafts Safari’ that has been started by the Handicrafts Department recently. He is currently working on a piece depicting the Dal.