holapith has been utilised in Bengal by malakar carvers who transform the soft, light and lustrous inner portions of the herbaceous plant  growing  wild  in  marshy  water logged areas.

Shola is a kind of reed growing in bogs in East India. When dried it is light in weight and when its thin brown skin is removed the pure white sholapith is ready to be carved with the sharp "Kat". The decorations are minutely and meticulously worked  in such a delicate form that it is hard to believe that this grandeur has been wrought by hand from this simple core  of  the  wild plant.